Thursday, January 28, 2010

Good news: Carey Ott finds his soul

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Once in a great while we hear something truly uplifting, before hardly any ears have listened to it, by an emerging artist ready to do something on a grand scale, and we'd like to broadcast it to the masses. A Six String Sanctuary Scoop (SSSS), if you will.

It's crazy how this all happened. Psycho, our Twin Cities tune vibemeister, recently sent me a link to a classic Soul Train video of Al Green. The timing was good, since we're right on the anniversary of Green's "Let's Stay Together" reigning over the Billboard Hot 100 chart (for six weeks in 1972). So I was just preparing to write about the Minister of Love when another email hit my inbox Wednesday afternoon.

Care to hear Al Green's next big hit? How about Carey Ott's breakout song?

Here are the lyrics to the newest song by Ott, a prolific Nashville tunesmith who first buzzed the national radar screen with a song that received multiple plays on Grey's Anatomy. The newspaper vets among us are going to want royalties for supplying Ott the inspiration to write his latest gem:

Good News (Carey Ott)
01-25-10

Open up the paper today
It seems that everything's failing
If you believe everything that you read
I bet your hope is fading

I gotta tell ya
They try to sell ya
That old hook line
Baby If it bleeds it leads

Somebody tell me some good news
Please somebody tell me some good news

Walk outside the sun's shining bright
Kids are laughing and playing
The summer breeze puts you at ease
Look how the flowers are swaying

Ain't life arranged to
Somehow amaze you
Not make you crazy
Put out the fire say

Please somebody tell me some good news
Please somebody tell me some good news
Please somebody tell me some good news
Please somebody tell me some good news

(Horns & Strings)

Ain't trying to hear it
Don't let me near it
That old hook line
Baby If it bleeds it leads

Somebody tell me some good news


Here is pure soul with a hook so sweet and delicious it'll reel you right in. If Al Green can't use it (I don't know that he'll get first dibs, but it sure SOUNDS like Al Green) then Ott should ride it all by his lonesome. When people hear it they'll wonder where that nice white boy from Chicago got all his soul.

Could this be the song that introduces the world to Carey Ott? Stay tuned for some really good news.

4 comments:

  1. I am reeled in. Hope the entire CD is as satisfying and soulful without hitting one between the eyes. Great stuff!

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  2. OMG, I just got pregnant!!!!

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  3. Carey Ott is the best next new artist. He covers many genres but is especially superb at alternative, indie, folk, americana and oh, rockabilly too. I think we'll see Carey at the Grammys some day in the near future.

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  4. Sue
    Carey is great - I can't wait to hear the entire CD. Thanks Jim :)

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