Jamey Johnson- “In Color”

Initial Impression- Top 40

Prediction- Top 30

Review:

Sometimes, we just need a song that reminds us how our grandparents grew up.  With all the problems that we have going on today, we don’t have it near as bad as our grandparents or great-grandparents had it.  In this song, Jamey sings about learning about his grandfather’s past through old black and white photos.  The hook to the song is “You should have seen it in color,” meaning that if you though the photo was “impressive” then you should’ve been there.  Through good times and bad, we should always know we weren’t the first and we won’t be the last to go through these times.

My initial impression of this song is that it is good enough lyrically and musically to be receiving the same airplay that songs in the Top 40 are getting.  As far as where it will end up on the charts, I don’t think Jamey has enough of a footing in the industry or a strong enough voice to put a well written song like this out and have radio picked it up and run with it.  He’s probably going to have do a lot of work behind the scenes to get radio to play it a lot, so I’m going to predict low for this song instead of high.

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Note:  I’m trying a slightly different format to my Single Reviews now by including all my thoughts into one concise section instead of going into detail in each part.