Rachel Williams's CD Release Party

All right, Rachel is hot. I gotta give it to her...the girl can sing. And today is Rachel's day. Today she is releasing a new 7 song EP called Lovers and Liars. It is available for download on her site and on Amazon and coming soon to iTunes.

I recently saw Rachel sing most of these songs at a songwriter's round at the Bluebird Cafe. The round was organized by Karleen Watt -- an exceptionally gifted young writer on the Nashville scene that always introduces me to great talent! (you'll hear more about her, I promise!)

Rachel is one of those singers who has found her voice...she can pull you into the song with her and take you on the ride. You could totally envision her voice and these songs in rotation on the radio. It really just comes down to what kind of support she gets on the Row -- which comes down to what kind of support she can get from fans like us.

So let's hit a few of the highlights so you will find yourself supporting our young artist before you realize what has happened.

The title song Lovers and Liars starts with the line

You took a wrecking ball to my heart
without even blinking

Now who among us hasn't been there???
This one is an anthem about lessons learned the hard way.

You'd think that I'd know better by now
But it's always too late by the time I find out
And I'm startin' to wonder
If I'll ever know the difference between
the smoke and the fire
Lovers and liars

It's universal, it's up tempo, and it's catchy. That's got the makin's of a hit song. It could hold its own against any country diva on the radio. (editor's note: It turns out Karleen is a co-writer for this one. I KNEW I liked this song!!)

A Woman to Love is an enjoyable female definition of what love ought to look like. Women everywhere will sing along at the top of their lungs, nod their heads and then look wistfully away and wish it were so.

Unboken Ground manages to take a real life relationship with warts and all and take it to an upbeat place with a morale to the story that reminds us that the good things don't come easy.

We'll never find the truth
with the words unspoken
or get to the love
with the ground unbroken.

You Let Me is a speech that any of us have given to a lover on their way out the door who left you heartbroken and strung along when they were just passing through all along. It manages to use a 3 minute song with a good hook to tap into the complicated feelings of anger and betrayal, loss and blame, and self doubt for having bought into the fairy tale to begin with. And it sticks with you...humming the chorus far longer than you would think.

Where My Line Is tells all about how "you won't cross that line again on me." You get the idea of that one. It's an uptempo diva song with an emphatic tone that women will take as their own when they need a little extra umph to hold the line in their own life.

So download a tune, go to the release party and hear my girl Karleen play her own compositions, and generally rise to the challenge to support an amazing young singer/songwriter as she travels the gravel paths on Music Row.


CD RELEASE PARTY
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24TH
3rd & Lindsley
Nashville, TN
6PM-9PM

Special performances by:
Karen Staley
Mark Narmore
Sara Beck
Karleen Watt
Bruce Wallace
Bonnie Baker