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* BittersweetSeventeen: "Springsteen", as in the trope's page quote, reminisces upon memories of being "so alive, never been more free" at a concert age 17 brought on by hearing Springsteen again later in life.
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* BittersweetSeventeen: Bittersweet17: "Springsteen", as in the trope's page quote, reminisces upon memories of being "so alive, never been more free" at a concert age 17 brought on by hearing Springsteen again later in life.
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* MurderBallad: "Lightning" is sung from the perspective of a man about face the electric chair for murdering a cashier while robbing a liquor store.
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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: "The Outsiders" shows that he can easily go into 6-7 range.
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* SongStyleShift: "Cold One" does this twice. The first verse is slow and twangy before the more mid-tempo, rocking chorus. Then after the second chorus, the song breaks into a blisteringly fast guitar solo before returning to the moderate tempo.
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* SongStyleShift: As would be expected from a GenreRoulette artist produced by Jay Joyce:
** "Cold One" does this twice. The first verse is slow and twangy before the more mid-tempo, rocking chorus. Then after the second chorus, the song breaks into a blisteringly fast guitar solo before returning to the moderate tempo.
** "Cold One" does this twice. The first verse is slow and twangy before the more mid-tempo, rocking chorus. Then after the second chorus, the song breaks into a blisteringly fast guitar solo before returning to the moderate tempo.
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* ''Heart & Soul'' (2021)
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* TakeThat: "Stick That in Your Country Song" has him demanding that artists take more chances with their material, such as tales of poverty-stricken cities, wounded veterans, or underpaid teachers.
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** "Mr. Misunderstood" namechecks Music/ElvisCostello, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Jeff Tweedy of Music/{{Wilco}}, the latter of whom previously wrote and recorded a song called "Misunderstood".
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* ParentheticalSwearing: "Stick That In Your Country Song", about how serious issues like poverty, urban violence, drug use, returning war veterans, and defunded education rarely make into mainstream country, has its chorus both challenge the establishment to talk about real American problems and sound like "go fuck yourself, you elitist pricks."
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* FortuneTeller: One lyric in "Desperate Man" references visiting a fortune teller who tells the narrator that he's "got no future at all". He chooses to ignore her observation.
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** "Record Year" is full of name-drops ranging from Music/GeorgeJones to New Grass Revival to George Thorogood.
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** "Record Year" is full of name-drops ranging from Music/GeorgeJones to New Grass Revival to George Thorogood.Thorogood to Ray Wylie Hubbard (with whom he would later write "Desperate Man").
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* ''Desperate Man'' (2018)
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He first got his foot in the door in late 2004-early 2005 as a co-writer on Terri Clark's "The World Needs a Drink". Although it took him until his third album to score a major hit, Church kept plugging away, building a fanbase and touring frequently. Radio finally granted him a first #1 in early 2012 with "Drink in My Hand", then followed that up with the summertime smash "Springsteen". His fourth album, ''The Outsiders'', followed in 2014, and it has generated further hits in "Give Me Back My Hometown" and "Talladega".
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He first got his foot in the door in late 2004-early 2005 as a co-writer on Terri Clark's "The World Needs a Drink". Although it took him until his third album to score a major hit, Church kept plugging away, building a fanbase and touring frequently. Radio finally granted him a first #1 in early 2012 with "Drink in My Hand", then followed that up with the summertime smash "Springsteen". His fourth album, ''The Outsiders'', followed in 2014, and it has generated further hits in "Give Me Back My Hometown" and "Talladega".
"Talladega". From ''Mr. Misunderstood'' came "Record Year" and "Round Here Buzz".
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Kenneth Eric Church (born May 3, 1977) is a CountryMusic singer and songwriter. Originally known as the guy whose errors gave Music/TaylorSwift her big break - he couldn't shorten his set as the opening act on a RascalFlatts tour - Church has subsequently exploded as a live act in his own right, mixing his story-songs with a hard rocking style owing to Music/BlackSabbath as much as Music/WaylonJennings.
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Kenneth Eric Church (born May 3, 1977) is a CountryMusic singer and songwriter. Originally known as the guy whose errors gave Music/TaylorSwift her big break - he couldn't shorten his set as the opening act on a RascalFlatts Music/RascalFlatts tour - Church has subsequently exploded as a live act in his own right, mixing his story-songs with a hard rocking style owing to Music/BlackSabbath as much as Music/WaylonJennings.
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* BittersweetSeventeen: "Springsteen", as in the trope's page quote, reminisces upon memories of being "so alive, never been more free" at a concert age 17 brought on by hearing Springsteen again later in life.
