As The Blue Dogs rose in popularity, performing across the country, Lammonds began to notice the types of songs that moved audiences, and continued to sharpen his skills. Lammonds began writing songs just after college when he formed The Blue Dogs, along with his buddies Hank Futch and Bobby Houck. Lammonds is a musical virtuoso of sorts, equally gifted at playing mandolin. “There’s a lonesome tone and a lot of emotion that bleeds through the sound of shape note style piano playing,” Lammonds says, and it’s that subtle warmth and longing that continues to inform his guitar technique today. As a boy, he listened to his father sing gospel songs on his grandfather’s Sunday morning radio show and spent hours stretched out alongside the upright piano while his aunts practiced for the Pentecostal Baptist service. Raised in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina, Lammonds was immersed in music. “I don’t like to waste words,” Lammonds says, and when you listen to his songs, you know he’s telling the truth. He’s earned the reputation for being just that good through years of honing his craft.
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And like the very best in the business, he has a way of elevating life’s ordinary moments into soulful, poetic perfection, full of grit and authenticity with the turn of a phrase and the lift of a just-right melody. Dixie Highway (Lee Brice, Jon Stone, Matraca Berg)ġ5.Phillip Lammonds is a songwriter. Even With My Eyes Closed (Jaren Johnston, Michael Heeney, Neil Mason)ġ4. Have A Good Day (Lee Brice, Billy Montana, Randy Montana)ġ3. Story To Tell (Little Bird) (Lee Brice, Phillip Lammonds, Edwin McCain)ġ2. Songs In The Kitchen (Lee Brice, Rob Hatch, Lance Miller)ġ1. The Locals (Lee Brice, Jon Stone, Brian Bunn)ġ0. Rumor (Lee Brice, Kyle Jacobs, Ashley Gorley)ĩ. You Can’t Help Who You Love (Lee Brice, Jon Stone, Ashley Gorley)Ĩ. I Don’t Smoke (Lee Brice, Billy Montana, Jon Stone, John Bollinger) *Warren Haynes/Guitarsħ. They Won’t Forget About Us (Lee Brice, Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, Ashley Gorley)Ħ. American Nights (Mike Walker, Austin Jenckes, Jeff Middleton)ĥ. Little Things (Lee Brice, Jaren Johnston, Neil Mason)ģ. What Keeps You Up At Night (Lee Brice, Jessi Alexander, Ross Copperman, Pete Wilson)Ģ.
No two songs are about the same things, but somehow it all hangs together.”ġ. I wanted to put a little piece of everything about me, everything I am on this record. “Even when it sounds like a computer, I promise, we figured out a way to make that sound. Songs that are pleasing to the heart - songs that make you feel something in your heart - they don’t need all that stuff,” Brice says. There are no computer tricks, no artificial sounds. “When I started, I wanted this record to be groovy, stripped down to the message and the feel. He knows those same things that matter to me, they’re in his music.”īrice plays the majority of lead guitar on the album, and co-wrote 11 of the album’s tracks. Those records, I knew by heart growing up… and he has a lot of the same Southern influences. “Before I came to town, I knew Edwin McCain and his music went to his concert every year at the House of Blues. “My hero came to my garage, and we wrote two songs,” Brice says of McCain. The self-titled, 15-song project features the single “Boy,” as well as tracks including “Story To Tell,” co-written with Edwin McCain and Phillip Lammonds. Lee Brice will release his fourth album for Curb Records on Nov.