Final verdict: 7/10 ★★★⋆˙⟡☆
I thought I was a country girl for having grown up in the country, and I thought I was a country girl for maladaptively daydreaming about fleeing the city on a bicycle and settling somewhere in the sunny meadows of rural Greece… But alas, here we have a country girl who not only lives in the country, but also has the country live within her, kind of like a Russian nesting doll. That is next-level country girlhood – and it was none other than singer-songwriter Brei Carter to have achieved this marvelous feat.
Of course, I like folk-rock as much as the next guy in line, and Carter’s song “Country Lives In Me” (taken off her new album “The Country Lives In Me”) was no disappointment. The line between folk-rock and country-pop is a thin one to tread in many cases (including this one right here), so I will be conveniently categorizing this tune as a rather sweet mixture of both – you have the twin guitars, you have the steady, minimal percussion, you have the yeehaw idiom, you have the Louisiana girl, and you have the GLJ (Good Lord Jesus) praise. It’s all very Bible Belt-esque, though the heavily autotuned vocals provide a bit of a modern edge. I wouldn’t call it a “pastiche,” because this isn’t the 19th century – the landscape has changed with the times, and it now includes a sepia tinge to everything. Since when has pastiche been a bad thing, anyway? I love pastiche, I really do, even if the sepia lens drowns out the life in the girl. 7/10.
MORE OF BREI CARTER:
https://linktr.ee/breicarter
https://www.instagram.com/breicarter
https://www.facebook.com/breicartermusic
https://www.youtube.com/breicarter
NOTES AND REFERENCES:
- siliamusic.com does not condone the use of Artificial Intelligence for artistic purposes of any sort. This artwork was AI-generated by the coordinator of the project that is being covered. ↩︎
Silia 
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