We are tonight!

Last night Dave and I went to check out Sam Hunt and Chase Rice at the Rodeo Club in San Jose, CA! It was our first time seeing both of these singer/songwriters that are pretty new to the country music scene. I wasn't sure how I was going to write this review but I'm going to do it anyway. I was very impressed with one of these artists and was kind of bored with the other.

The artist that really impressed me was Sam Hunt! He's got an interesting voice that I can tell has been influenced by not only country music but R&B as well. He did a medley of covers songs that included and older R&B song from the 90's called "This is How We Do It". I got a little video of that:

He's also written hit songs for Kenny Chesney (Come Over), Billy Currington (We Are Tonight) and Keith Urban (Cop Car). I was most excited to hear his version of Cop Car because I love Keith and loved hearing the song sang by the original songwriter. I got a little video of that, and also one of him singing his song recorded by Billy Currington! 

Sam Hunt also said that he has an album coming out later this year! I'm pretty excited for that after seeing him! While waiting for that release, you can check out his acoustic mixtape on soundcloud until then :) 

Sam Hunt SoundCloud Link

Next up was Chase Rice! I was excited to see Chase after hearing great things about him and his music. So needless to say, I had maybe some higher expectations. I hate writing negative reviews especially about an artist that I know had been getting a lot of hype and buzz about. I'm not sure what it was but Dave and I came to an agreement that he didn't seem to be very entertaining. This is just my opinion though and hopefully he changes my mind about him when we see him open for Dierks Bentley this summer! 

I'm On Top Of The World

Last night was kind of a spur of the moment concert night for Dave and I. We got tickets to see Imagine Dragons at the SAP center in San Jose! At first when I started liking them, I looked at tickets and there were hardly any good ones left. Then I was scheduled to work that night. I was then told that I didn't need to come in....so for fun, I looked at ticketmaster again last night and they had released some good seats on the side of the stage!

This is also the first time I think since we saw Train that we had been to a non-country concert! We got there right in the middle of one of the opening acts called Naked and Famous. I really liked their sound but I couldn't understand any of the words the woman lead singer was singing.

It was definitely a different vibe in the arena! There was a general admission crowd on the floor and a good mix of people from what I could see! Imagine Dragons put on one heck of a show! There were a lot of drums on the stage (of course) and the lead singer Dan was very energetic, making his way all around the stage. There were points in the show that him and the other band members would come up to the side stage right next to us. Right then and there, our seats were pretty close!!

                         When they played "On Top Of the World", balloons filled with confetti were released and they used drumsticks each time one came by to poke them and break them. I thought that was super cool!

A video of them singing "It's Time".

This next video really explains their love of drums. They did a cover of a classic rock song by Rush called Tom Sawyer. Correct me if I'm wrong, Dave told me the name and who it was by. I'm not that educated on my classic rock music :/

Of course I had to get a little video of them singing my favorite song by them called "On Top Of The World"! At the end of the video, Dan comes to our side of the stage again :)

Had a really great night! Really hope we can see them again!! 

When Life Gives You Lemons.....

Last night Dave and I went to our first concert of the year at the Rodeo Club in San Jose, CA to see country artist Austin Webb! We've seen him a couple times before but this was the first time also seeing him do a show by himself. He's an amazing singer/songwriter with such a soulful raspy voice. He also plays the harmonica which I think I don't see very often in country music anymore. He's got a pretty goofy personality that really showed through last night. During one of the songs he hid behind the curtains on the stage, that was pretty funny! This show was also done on the other side of the Rodeo Club. It's smaller and only holds about 450 people. It looked kind of like a banquet hall you could use for a wedding reception! I really liked how small and intimate it was though! Hope they have more acoustic shows over here!

Here is a clip of a song called "Lemonade" that he wrote. That's where I got the blog title ;)

He performed a song that he said he wrote when he was 15 or 16 that he sang on the opry for his debut. It's called "Even Angels Fall".

The last song I got video of is his current single called "Slip On By". He said the local radio station KRTY has spun this song the most since it's release. You could tell by the sold out crowd that people still listen to the radio and know who Austin is. It's always a great feeling when people in this town sing the song back to the artists, even newer ones like Austin! 

At the end of the show, trays of Fireball shots were being passed out from Austin. He came back out to do one more song after that for the encore called "Life Of The Party". What a great way to start off the year of concerts! Can't wait until the next one!