Top 40 Singles of 2008: Todd O'Neill - "Can I Come Over Tonight" (#31)

Outside of the country music world, Indie music is often loved by hipsters who scoff at aything 'mainstream.'  In the Country music world, indie music often is considered sub-par but when an artist like Todd O'Neill comes along, it's easy to ignore labels, as we did with this single.

Todd O'Neill - Real Life

While the song lyric is very important to country music, if the voice singing the words doesn't have at least an interesting voice, then what's the point?  Without a good voice and words, a song is just music.  So really gifted vocalists always will grab my attention. Todd O'Neill is one of those people and "Real Life" is his first album.

Todd O'Neill - Cajun Queen Live

Here's a live performance of "Cajun Queen" from Aria Records Nashville's Todd O'Neill.

Todd O'Neill - Cajun Queen

With a plethora of handsome country singers with marginal talent gaining record deals nationally, it's nice to know true singers like Tood O'Neill are out there.  "Cajun Queen" is the second single from his new Aria Records Nashville release"Real Life."  Does this little label single stack up to the big label ones?