LAUREN ANDERSON
WON’T STAY DOWN
HONEY, CALL ME BABY–TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE–WON’T STAY DOWN–CAKE–WILD AND FREE
Lauren Anderson got her start as an eight-year old on piano, then, later, in her teens, with classical voice training. She got her Masters in Music from the University Of Kansas, and has recorded three EP’s from 2015 thru 2017, with “The Game,” from 2017, cracking the Top 50 of the Billboard Blues Chart for five weeks. She’s adopted Nashville as her hometown, and, on July 26 she will release her next EP, “Won’t Stay Down.”
Hey–she’s got a huge voice and talent to boot, and these five songs represent anthems of female empowerment after she became disenchanted with trying to cope with basically a “good-ole-boys” business. Jimi Greene is on guitar, Hutch is on bass, John Rodrigue is on drums, and William Adkins is on keys.
Our girl definitely don’t take no mess as she lays out these five originals. Witness the Faces-like groove of the leadoff story of those aforementioned good ole boys who’d just as soon take advantage of her, “Honey, Call Me Baby,” A cheatin’ lover is brought to task when it’s all over, with the vintage soul of “Too Little, Too Late, to fix things with me.” Even tho some folks “might throw stones,” she refuses to give up or give in on one of the set’s highlights, “Won’t Stay Down.” She rocks out over a rhumba beat with the horn-fueled “I want my Cake and eat it, too,” and closes things with another stone guitar rocker, this time the story of a small-town girl with “so much potential,” who “ditched college for a life in L. A,” so she could fulfill her true dream of being “Wild And Free.”
Lauren Anderson is a bold, bluesy, free-spirited singer who knows no boundaries, and is Hell-bent on forging her own sounds and doing things her own way. “Won’t Stay Down” is sho’ nuff done with no apologies and no regrets! Until next time…Sheryl and Don Crow, The Nashville Blues And Roots Alliance.
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