Perhaps this lack of break-out success is directly tied to the fact that Steel Magnolia, the newly engaged duo of Meghan Linsey and Joshua Scott Jones’s debut album, was released nearly a year after Top 5 debut single “Keep On Lovin’ You” was released. The follow-up singles “Just By Being You” and “Last Night Again” simply didn’t strike a chord with radio as much as that lead single so to say that fourth single “Bulletproof” is a make or break song for the duo and their debut album is putting it mildly.
Written by Lori McKenna and Chris Thompkins, “Bulletproof” is a supremely strong song with engagingly powerful vocals from Meghan that find her navigating the simple joys of life after getting out of a horrible relationship. It’s a song that anyone getting out of a relationship and living with a new outlook on life (and the very good feeling about life as a single woman who can do what she wants, when she wants). The power in Meghan’s voice recalls Melissa Etheridge and at others there’s a hit of Trisha Yearwood in her nuanced vocal delivery.
If there’s anything that’s gonna make radio want to play Steel Magnolia over and over, it is going to be “Bulletproof.” Perhaps once this song is a big hit, the duo can close out the record with the fantastic “Edge of Goodbye” or maybe the fun cover of Keith Urban’s “Homespun Love.” Whatever happens, modern country music is for the better if they keep Steel Magnolia around.
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