Nimbit Artists of the Month; October 2014 November 5,2014
Travis Meadows:
In an ecologically conscious 2014, it might be less than PC to acknowledge that demons are the most efficient fuel for a songwriter's fire. But Travis Meadows, who grew up hard in Jackson, Mississippi, probably isn't too worried about that. Now hailing from Nashville, Meadows has spent the last couple of decades grabbing his demons by the neck and throwing them into his personal incinerator. Who ya gonna call?
The result is a school of gritty, haunted country rock that harkens back to a time before mainstream country went paradoxically digital. Travis' three offerings on Nimbit are more about spit than polish, and in era where wild songbirds are getting their chirps Auto-Tuned, a little bit of Meadows straight-shooting is just the rooster-cry CM needs right now. While his repertoire leans heavily on emotive ballads that may belie his 5-o'clock shadow/sunglasses after dark image, there's also a weighty darkness in creepers like Good Country People that offer a stirring window to another side of Travis' soul. His lyrical content is deeply personal, acknowledging his win over cancer, the loss of his leg, and victories over a few different kinds of bottles. Heartstrings tugged hard enough to snap.
Travis was decorated in 2001 with ASCAP's Christian Music Award, and has landed eight Top 20 singles in the Contemporary Christian genre. He's also found success in lending his songs to other performers, and is a staff writer at Universal. Writing collaborators include Lynard Skynyrd, Lee Ann Womack, and Jake Owen, and Adam Brand.
Travis has cherry-picked a fine lineup of session players to round out these records; highlights include some excellent flourishes of organ and pedal steel on Play with Fire from My Life 101. Said additions enhance the record in a manner that's not over-the-top or distracting from what's important here: the stories. That said, critical listeners will not overlook the caliber of these performances. There's not really any showboating here, but they're strong enough to make a listener think I'll never be good enough to play that. Not to say that Travis' chops as a guitars and vocalist couldn't carry these records alone-they can-and on more restrained tracks ( Lonely Like This, ) they do. Dusty without the rusty.
My Life 101 concludes with one of the more stirring renditions of Amazing Grace that I've heard in a long time, a suitable counterpoint to some of the rough-and-tumble ruckus of the previous tracks.
Travis' Nimbit profile boasts not only three full-length albums and his tour schedule, but also four live performance videos-something that we don't see enough of on these profiles, so take note!
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Suzy Bogguss:
While a formidable country songwriter and arranger in her own right, Suzy Bogguss' voice is the centerpiece of her sonic offering. Anyone who's heard it once will immediately recognize it on a subsequent listen-heartfelt and pitch-perfect, with just a touch of lonesome smoke. Suzy's been in the game a while, now, having scored a string of top ten singles in the 90s, including Outbound Plane, Drive South, Hey Cinderella, Letting Go and, most notably, Aces, The title track of her platinum-selling 1991 album. All told, three of her albums have raked in gold album status, and to date she's moved a total of three million copies and taken home awards from the CMA, ACM, and the Grammys.
She's not one to hang up her hat on such accomplishments-nowadays, Suzy plays a lot of shows, and somehow finds the time to run her own label, Loyal Dutchess-which has allowed her complete creative freedom and ownership of her material. Her latest full-length, Lucky, illustrates the benefits of having set out on her own. Lucky finds Suzy reinterpreting classics from none other than Merle Haggard. The admittedly sparse, acoustic instrumentation allows Suzy's aforementioned voice-and the stories it tells-to drive the entire record. And as anyone who's listened to Merle Haggard knows, the story is what matters most.
Suzy's Nimbit store is packed with no fewer than nine full-length records, including a Christmas album and a greatest hits compilation. She's also taking advantage of the platform's Calendar feature, and from the looks of things she's pretty booked up through late April. If she rolls through your town, she is not to be missed.
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Dave Coffin:
Dave Coffin s involvement in the music biz started when he was very young, potentially even prenatal-he was born into a supportive family who raised him in an environment rife with classical music, and you know what they say about kids who hear Mozart while in the womb.
As Dave grew up a little, his aptitude for music was clear, and said supportive family encouraged his musical leanings by buying him a strat for his ninth birthday. Despite having been raised on the classics, Dave found himself drawn more toward mohawks than powdered wigs, and wound up cutting his musical teeth on punk rock.
While his parents may not have been able to sway him from Green Day, Dave Matthews (yes, that Dave Matthews) did. After hearing the siren song of DMB, Coffin cashed in the strat and amp for a Martin, and the rest is history. He wrote and recorded acoustically for six years before pulling up stakes from Maine and shipping up to Boston for college, where he majored in Ellis Paul with a minor in Patty Griffin.
Dave's Nimbit store offers two four-song EPs and the 2010 full-length, The King is Dead. The Dave is alive, fortunately, and so are many of his session
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Nimbit Artists of the Month; October 2014 November 5,2014 
