Holly Williams - "Keep The Change"
By: Matt Bjorke
Last Updated: February 8, 2009 3:00 PM
She's from Country music royalty yet her first album (2004's) "The Ones We Never Knew" was hardly a country album, despite being released by Universal Records South. After surviving a horrorific car accident, Holly Williams returns to the national scene with this tempo-filled track that instantly recalls Mary Chapin Carpenter. Since radio doesn't really play Carpenter these days, why not give Holly that smartly written, hook-filled songs. "Keep The Change" finds the 26 year-old writing about living life stuck at home and then waxes philosophic, over cascading drums and sliding guitar notes and steel guitar fills about "I've paid my dues honey, you can keep the change." There's something in this single that suggests that music row's ready for another smart, strong vocalist and songwriter like Holly.
READER'S COMMENTS
Rick says:
Posted: Monday, January 19, 2009
Holly became a favorite of Aussie Kasey Chambers and opened for Kasey during a US tour a couple of years back. Holly's music back then drove me into the lobby during her set, where I had a good conversation with Bill Chambers which was time well spent. Based upon my previous encounter with Holly's music I really don't know if I'd make an effort to hear this new stuff. I was impressed that Holly is a physical giant for a woman and would look especially good standing next to Darryl Worley! (lol)