On Hey, Friend – Shawn Hess has assembled a classic country album straight from the honky tonk heavens. Even if the album is only a week old, it could easily be mistaken for being released a half-century ago. Slap any one of these 9 tracks onto a 45 and they’d comfortably seem at home in your favorite jukebox. Hess hails from Wyoming and has worked the music scene there from all angles. Making connections & honing his skill set as a country musician over the years is really beginning to take shape and shine down on our listening ears. Hey, friend, pour yourself a tall one and drink it in. These 31 minutes do not disappoint.
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“Shawn Hess crawled out of a western noir film and into your hearts with songs that stand firmly with one foot in the oldest roots of western music and folk and the other in a modern sensibility for narrative and rhyme”
– @davidburchfieldmusic
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Classic country is alive and well.
