Time For Some Wine And Great Music

On July 18th, 2014 KRTY hosted another songwriter's series at the Clos La Chance winery in San Martin, CA. This was a beautiful night for some amazing country music featuring artists Will Hoge, Mallary Hope, Katie Arminger and Doug Johnson. These are personally my favorite kind of shows because not only do you get to hear the songs but you get to hear the stories behind them.

Will Hoge started off the first round of songs for the group and I don't believe I've ever seen him in concert before!

Will sang a really funny song about married life called "No Man's Land" which I thought was hysterical! 

It was a real treat to be able to see the same song performed twice in one week. Will Hoge penned "Even If It Breaks Your Heart" that was recorded by the Eli Young Band. I saw the Eli Young Band sing this earlier this week and was so happy to hear it again via the songwriter himself! 

Mallary Hope was second in the round of performers and as usual she was cracking jokes about her songs along with her friend right next to her Katie Arminger. Mallary is one of my favorite songwriters and in my opinion has one of the best voices out of Nashville. 

Mallary recently put a bunch of new songs on her Soundcloud page and it was great to hear a live performance of one of them called "Closure"

Katie Arminger and Mallary joked most of the night about having mostly songs about their "douchebag" ex-boyfriends. They came to agreement that the only song that they could sing together (that wasn't about douchebags) was Katie's latest radio single called "Safe"

Katie Arminger

I was blown away with the major hits that Doug Johnson had written! He co-penned 'Three Wooden Crosses" by Randy Travis, "Sarabeth" by Rascal Flatts and "Love Like Crazy" by Lee Brice! He was definitely one of those artists that I went "Holy crap he wrote that?!?!". 

  

In the last round of the evening, Mallary Hope and Katie Arminger performed an amazing cover of "Does He Love You" that was originally sung by Reba and Linda Davis. I can't get over how amazing they sound together! 

What a spectacular songwriter's show and hope I can make it to the next one!