Kendell Marvel - Hell Bent On Hard Times (Official Live Session)
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2022
- Acclaimed solo artist. Grammy-winning songwriter. Road warrior. By the time Kendell Marvel moved into a 200 year-old farmhouse in the Tennessee countryside in 2021, he'd already spent more than two decades expanding the boundaries of modern-day country music.
Albums like Lowdown and Lonesome and Solid Gold Sounds were showcases for his blend of southern twang and super-sized vocals, filled with songs that split the difference between honky-tonk country and roadhouse rock & roll. Marvel's catalog reaches far beyond his solo work, too, with artists like George Strait, Gary Allan, and Chris Stapleton all landing Top 40 hits with his compositions. The man had clearly left his mark. If he'd chosen to celebrate his new home by taking a few months off, the vacation would have been well-earned.
Of course, you can take the man out of Nashville, but you can't take the Nashville out of the man. Hours after moving in, Marvel unpacked his guitars and quickly got to work in his new space, writing songs that blended timeless textures with contemporary insight. He began with "Younger Me," a nostalgic ode to young manhood and resilience that became a Grammy-winning hit for the song's co-writers, Brothers Osborne. He kept writing during the months that followed, fine-tuning the mix of country-rockers, soul standouts, and bluesy ballads that now fill his third solo effort, Come On Sunshine.
Recorded in Dallas, TX, with producer Beau Bedford - Come On Sunshine burns as brightly as its name. These are songs for Saturday night hell-raising and Sunday morning comedowns. They're stand-your-ground anthems and help-your-neighbor rallying cries. They're sharply-written tunes about booze and breakups, true love and false prophets, bad habits and proud traditions, delivered by a songwriter who's lived enough life to confidently chronicle its ups and downs.
"I'm 51 years old, which means I'm long past the point of catering to anybody," Marvel says. "I'm just telling the stories I want to tell, whether it's a song like 'Come On Sunshine' - which Devon Gilfillian and I wrote at the height of the pandemic, looking to pour some light into the people who were shut in, shut down, and struggling with the doom and gloom we were all seeing on TV - or “Keep Doing Your Thing,” which argues that the world would be a better place if we just let people be who you are."
He even zeroes in on money-hungry televangelists with "Put It In The Plate," a southern-fried stomper that's already become an audience favorite during Marvel's ongoing tours with Chris Stapleton. "It's got that sound I grew up loving, like Hank Jr's songs in the '80s," he explains. "It's not country, it's not rock; it's just a perfect mixture of all of it. It's an interesting song because it's calling out the righteous gemstones of the world! Maybe it'll piss people off, but sometimes, the truth does that."
The truth goes down a little easier when it's set to a soundtrack of greasy funky-tonk and nuanced Tennessee twang, though. At its heaviest moments, Come On Sunshine leans closer to the rock & roll side of the country-rock divide, with Marvel delivering amplified anthems like "Don't Tell Me How To Drink" with the gruff growl of a lifer who's earned the right to call his own shots. "Brother, I've spilled more on the barroom floor than you've ever had, so let me do my thing," he barks in his deep baritone, backed by cymbal crashes and ringing power chords. If those moments nod to the ZZ-Top-meets-Merle-Haggard sound of his Keith Gattis-produced debut, Lowdown and Lonesome, then tracks like "Hellbent on Hard Times" and "Dyin' Isn't Cheap" salute the vintage warmth of 2019's Solid Gold Sounds, which Marvel recorded with The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach. Come On Sunshine finds the middle ground between those two records, its diversity mirrored by Marvel's broad list of collaborators.
"I like to work with people who are different than me," he notes. "Working with Beau Bedford in Dallas meant that I was playing with guys I'd never met before. Guys who had different ideas, different tones, and different ways of playing than my friends back home. We recorded the album live, finishing the whole thing in four days. That's how you capture magic. The same thing can be said for the people I write with. I love to surround myself with people like that, and sit in the writing room with someone who isn't just like me. Because that's how you capture magic, too."
It's been nearly 25 years since Marvel moved to Nashville and wrote Gary Allen's Top 5 hit "Right Where I Need To Be" during his first day in town. With Come On Sunshine, he proves that one's day in the sun can last a lifetime, as long as you're willing to listen to the muse, challenge your perspectives, and chase down the magic in front of you.
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When I'm out in the woods working, I always stop when this song hits the rotation. What a gem.
I’m a fan 3rd song I’ve heard and I haven’t heard a bad one yet.
Great! 👏👏👏
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Why such good songs have only a few thousands views while a cheap, plastic crap has millions...
Why Kendell isn't already one of the biggest things in country music is beyond me!!! A true throwback with one of the smoothest voices today!
I can relate to this song great music exactly what people need to do
Yo! You all whaled it last night in NH! Thank you?
Good little song there ol pard.
First new song in a while I haven't skipped.
Came to me as an advert. Searched it out afterwards. Great song.
Beautiful sound. The old me. 9 years sober.
Good shit as usual! Give em Hell Kendell! Mike Spike, Southern Illinois
Sounds good brother… Real damn good…
Good song
i love to heard your performance ... very great .. thank you for sharing ... the beautiful songs
FANTABULOUS ✌️ 💜 🎶
Great So ng! Phoenix AZ
Another great song. Lovely !!!
Where you been hiding? Found you on Chris Stapleton radio
Keep it up!!
Damn Dude 🤟
So many favorite songs by
K Marvel but geez I really ❤love ❤this one!!! Take it to the top !!
Hi Kendell,
I don't have any social media account bar RUclips so I thought of dropping you a line here to say it was an absolute pleasure seeing you last Wednesday @The Lexington in London.
I hope you enjoyed Spain (my country of birth) and fingers crossed you come back to Europe soon :)
Best of luck for your upcoming gigs!
Awesome brother! I love it man!
Beautiful man, I am really diggin' on this~
👏🎙🎶💕