The month of October was a big CD buying month for me. The last 3 weeks of the month included a trip (or 2) to the store to get a CD that had just come out that day.
It all started with the October 12th release of the self titled debut album by The Band Perry and a Target exclusive Christmas CD from Lady Antebellum called A Merry Little Christmas. Admittedly, I only listened through the Christmas CD from Lady A once and then put it away. It will come back out the day after Thanksgiving and get much play during the following month. But from what I remember hearing it was great! The Band Perry put together a quite impressive debut album. I already had their digital EP which contains 5 of the 11 songs on the CD and loved those 5 songs. The 6 songs added to those did not dissapoint either. My favorite is probably Double Heart which is about a guy getting a tattoo with the woman's name next to his which sends her running away as fast as possible (and it happens with more than one guy!). Besides being a fun song, it is what I'm guessing the most difficult to sing vocally for Kimberly, but she does it to perfection as she does on all of the songs.
On October 19th the 4th album from Sugarland titled The Incredible Machine was released. And once again Jennifer and Kristian put out an amazing collection of songs. Besided the almost too catchy Stuck Like Glue, my favorite song from the album would be Tonight, which ironically comes right after Stuck Like Glue on the CD. It is a slow tempo song and really shows off the "incredible machine" of a voice that Jennifer Nettles has. I'm pretty sure she could sing the phone book and make it sound cool with the range of styles of music she can do. Sugarland continues to grow with each album and seem to create a new sound to the band while keeping it the same at the same time.
And of course just last week on October 25th (not sure why it was released on a monday) Taylor Swift's much anticipated 3rd album came out. I guess quite a few other people bought it too since I heard it sold over a million in it's first week! A couple of my favorite songs on the album are ones that are actually not about the boys in her life. Never Grow Up is the new version of The Best Day from her previous album Fearless. While not really being about the same thing, it is one of those slow songs about life when younger that makes a person cry when hearing it. And I'm kind of a sucker for those kinds of songs. Mean is a song about all of the Taylor haters out there. Not so ironically it is the most country/bluegrass sounding song she has ever done for all of those that say she is pop and not at all country. Although those are my 2 favorites, the song that I feel is the best lyrically written song that she may have ever done is Dear John. It is rumored to be about John Mayer, and by listening to the lyrics it definitely could be.
So if you are looking to buy some new music I would recommend any and all of these CDs. I actually gave a The Band Perry CD and the Sugarland CD for a couple birthday gifts. Gotta spread the country music love!
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