Photo by Valerie Fraser
The idea of this new article series 'SoundCloud Spotlight' is to shine light on incredible songs that female country artists have been releasing on SoundCloud. SoundCloud is a platform made up of growing and developing artists, and a good amount of those artists are up and coming country artists. And sometimes, when searching through many demos and songs, you find a hidden gem that just speaks to you. This demo, written by Lauren McLamb and Trannie Stevens, is one of those.
Fully produced songs are beautiful, and there really is nothing quite like hearing a country song produced well with banjos, guitars, fiddles, mandolins, steel guitars, dobros, and any other instrument you could think of. Even though that is amazing, there's something equally special about songs that are produced to the minimum. These often can manage to hit you just as hard, or even harder than a fully produced song ever could. Recent examples of songs like these include "Burning House" by Cam: a song that's acoustic guitar and vocals that blew away country music and received a Grammy nomination as well going Platinum. "Losing Ground" by Aubrie Sellers and "How Could I Want More" by Jamie Lynn Spears are other examples of songs that affect people with just lyrics, vocals and simple instrumentation. "It Wasn't Me" is another song to add to that list.
This song wasn't written by hit songwriters: it was written by two Belmont University students, Lauren McLamb and Trannie Stevens. It wasn't produced by Mark Bright or Nathan Chapman: it was produced by Stephen English . It wasn't sung by Carrie Underwood, or Miranda Lambert. It was sung by McLamb. And yet, even without a team of industry superstars, these young artists managed to create a track that is powerful, beautiful and incredible. The emotion bleeds from the song, and that's a result of the hard work of the vocalist, the writers, the producer, and the instrumentalists. "It Wasn't Me" is a breakup song at its best.
This song wasn't written by hit songwriters: it was written by two Belmont University students, Lauren McLamb and Trannie Stevens. It wasn't produced by Mark Bright or Nathan Chapman: it was produced by Stephen English . It wasn't sung by Carrie Underwood, or Miranda Lambert. It was sung by McLamb. And yet, even without a team of industry superstars, these young artists managed to create a track that is powerful, beautiful and incredible. The emotion bleeds from the song, and that's a result of the hard work of the vocalist, the writers, the producer, and the instrumentalists. "It Wasn't Me" is a breakup song at its best.
RSS Feed
