7.4
Contact: johnny@johnnymcgowan.com
Web: johnnymcgowan.com
Seeking: Booking, Label
Style: Country
Texas country man McGowan offers a refreshing take on country in this super-polished world of rhinestones and over-white teeth. The artist offers “Ernest Tubb circa 1966” as a reference, elaborating with “twangy guitars, haunting melodies, fiddle and pedal steel doin’ the rest.” So there are shades of bluegrass creeping in, largely due to that fiddle work on a song like “Easy Come and Easy Go,” which all adds to the general vibe of dusty authenticity. Country music, like blues, relies on the listener absolutely buying what the lyrics tell us, and McGowan commands that sort of trustworthiness.
