Six months ago I couldn’t have imagined writing an appreciative review of an album by an artist whose music is frequently described as a unique blend of folk, hip-hop, and Brit-pop (think Coldplay for the latter genre).
The Coldplay connection is ultimately responsible for this development. Despite the canonical status of U2 in my playlist, I confess to liking Coldplay’s sound enough to download a few songs. Early this year while writing at the Broad River Coffee Company across the street from Gardner-Webb University, I kept hearing a couple of songs I assumed were tracks I hadn’t yet heard from Coldplay’s latest studio release. A quick Google search for lyric fragments revealed they were actually by singer-songwriter Mat Kearney (pronounced “Carney”)—whose music, I realized, I’d heard before on Grey’s Anatomy episodes.
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