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Holler Nashville Sessions Presented by George Dickel, Recorded at Horton Events in Nashville, TN:
Harper O'Neill
SET LIST
'Guilty'
'Bottom Line'
'I'm Not Her'
There's a general rule of thumb when it comes to playing the support slot at a particular venue in London, UK. If you open the stage at The Apollo and manage to stun the crowd into silence, you've got something special. In this writer's experience, that has only ever happened once, and it was managed by the very artist you've come here to witness today.
Harper O'Neill possesses that something special. A Texan living in Tennessee with the talent requisite of both, O'Neill writes some of the most arresting songs in country music and has a striking, profound voice with which to deliver them.
So when it came time for O'Neill to record her first Holler Nashville Session, within the quaint confines of the George Dickel bar, we knew it was going to be one we wouldn't forget.
"This song is called 'Guilty', and it's for the lovers," O'Neill declares affectionately when introducing her first take. A stunning admission of yearning and acceptance in loving someone, O'Neill layers her booming, dexterous voice across a soulful acoustic bounce. It's bold, freeing and romantic in the most joyous of ways, and a beautiful start to the session.
"It's about losing someone and not really understanding how you lost them," O'Neill explains before playing her second song, 'Bottom Line'. It's a startling piece, O'Neill leaving every exasperated feeling of pain and emotion in the song. It's a fearless and utterly moving performance.
"'I'm Not Her' is about changing yourself when you get left behind". Perhaps O'Neill's most poignant and evocative song to date, 'I'm Not Her' captures a distinctly painful yet necessary process we all go through when love comes to an end, changing the person we are to find ourselves once more. O'Neill's piercing lyricism is only made sharper by her vocal delivery, which in the close space of the session sounds absolutely thundering.
A stunning session, Harper O'Neill proves why she's one of the most powerful and significant artists coming out of Music City today.
Holler Nashville Sessions Presented by George Dickel
Directors: Joshua Britt and Neilson Hubbard
Audio Engineer and Sound Editor: Neilson Hubbard
Editors: Josh Britt and Neilson Hubbard (Neighborhoods Apart Productions)
Producer: Ross Jones
Recorded at Horton Events in Nashville, TN.
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