Well look at what we have here.  Barely into the New Year and we've got ourselves the first new artist of the year.  Shane O'Dazier comes from the still new Robbins Nashville label.  While the label has serviced three singles to radio (from Rockie Lynne, Chad Hudson and Joshua Stevens) they've yet to see an artist gain much traction at Country radio.  Perhaps O'Dazier will change that with his debut single "I Hate This Town." 

While the single presents nothing new to country music, O'Dazier's smooth baritone vocal (that is somewhere near Joe Nichols and Jason Michael Carroll) helps sell the 'I hate this town because you're not in it anymore lyric."  The melody features a mainstream country approach where the instruments blend together but there are noticeable flourishes of mandolin, steel guitar and Hammond organs in the mix. There is enough here to recommend this single to country fans but that doesn't mean it's an earth-shaking single.  Rather, it's a pleasing, catchy single that radio can get behind; just the kind of single both Shane O'Dazier and Robbins Nashville should be releasing to gain a foothold at country radio.