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By Jof Owen
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Everybody knows that where there's smoke there's fire. So, when one of your girlfriends shows up at the honky tonk looking hotter than a McDonald's Apple Pie you know exactly what signals she's sending out. If you can't handle the heat, step away from the flame emoji. She didn't get all lit up like that just for you to put her out.
On her new single, KC Johns celebrates those smokin' hot hotties everywhere with a song that's got viral summer hit written all over it.
"'Smoke Show' is a song written for the girls!" says KC Johns. "It should be okay for women to tell women they are beautiful, strong, intelligent and straight up SMOKE SHOWS! During live shows, from the stage, I will often point out, when a girl has taken the time out of her hard workin' day to curl her hair, mellowly fix her makeup and search for the perfect outfit (to maybe impress someone) - that she is an absolute SMOKE SHOW! Women should tell women this more often - let's build each other up EVERYDAY! #SMOKESHOW”
Listen to 'Smoke Show' below.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Hernando, Mississippi, a small town along the Tennessee-Mississippi line, KC Johns was surrounded by music for as long as she can remember. Named after KC and the Sunshine Band and raised on the greats like Led Zeppelin, Stevie Nicks and Sheryl Crow, KC Johns is a country rock firebrand cut from the same cloth as artists like Miranda Lambert and Meghan Patrick and her latest single continues to blaze a trail lit with recent releases 'Break from the Heart' and 'Rodeo Queen' as she edges ever closer to a follow up to her 2022 album, Thunder.
“My mom is a championship barrel racer and my stepdad was a bull rider,” she says, recalling how she and her mom headed to Nashville to make her dreams of becoming a recording artist a reality when she was just 17. “I just took my guitar and started hitting all the clubs on Broadway asking people if I could sing on stage.”
After a stint singing on cruise ships and honing her style in Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors at Dollywood, she began opening for artists like Luke Bryan, Chris Young, Randy Houser, Trailer Choir and Morgan Wade, and found herself back in Nashville again.
“I moved to Nashville on a whim,” she explains. “I had nowhere to stay. I just packed up all my stuff and took a chance, sleeping on friends’ couches and singing on Broadway again. Before I knew it, I started meeting incredible and influential people.”
Her next adventure begins across the other side of the Atlantic with a tour of the UK.
UK TOUR DATES:
April 10th Eat Rodeo Keep it country, Wolverhampton
April 16th Colne Delta, Brightlingsea
17th Boots on Coast, Southampton
April 22nd Forty Five Vinyl Cafe, York
23rd Sheffield
April 24th Buckle and Boots, Stockport
April 25th Leestock, Suffolk
May 11th Foodies Festival, Cardiff
May 23 - Record Junkee, Sheffield
May 26th Foodies Festival, Syon Park
'Smoke Show' is out on 4 April on Dirt Trail Entertainment.