For some country music fans, the stars who have had hits in recent years haven't exactly been making music they can latch onto. Mo Pitney hopes to change that in 2015 when he launches his career via Curb Records. Pitney, as traditional country as an artist can get in any era, records songs that feel as relevant today in 2014 as they did in 1964, 1974, 1984, 1994 or 2004. In other words, Mo Pitney makes songs that are timeless.
"I'm just trying to make the music that touches my heart," Mo Pitney says. "I'm not trying to be anything other than who I am and that's a country singer."
As if to emphasize this fact, Pitney and his record label team at Curb Records have decided to launch his career with the mission statement of a song called "Country." in the song's lyrics, Pitney discusses the various ways that one can be "Country" without the word meaning just the traditional musical genre name or location-based.
If country radio's gate keepers are as open to Mo Pitney's fine music (He's got some other great stuff like "Clean Up On Aisle Five" and "Come Do A Little Life" which would make Alan Jackson proud.
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[…] song — co-written with Bill Anderson and Bobby Tomberlin — has been described as a mission statement, although some may criticize him for leaning into all the old familiar […]