Trent Willmon "Home Sweet Holiday Inn"

[reception]

www1.allaccess.com/sounds/trenhome.ram

It goes for adds this week and moves 222-110 on Mediabase.

[someguy]

This is another good song. It's too bad country radio hasn't embraced Trent like they have a lot of new male artists recently. I listened to his whole album on CMT and it's pretty solid, with quite a few potential hits on it. I'm going to get it eventually, if I can find it around here.

[Gitar Strang]

I like Trent's album, too. Earlier this year, I heard a few songs from the record before it was finished (Including Beer Man). I wasn't a huge fan of it, but when I got the final master, it grew on me. It's got some great tunes, and Frank Rodgers really does a great job with the production. "Dixie Rose Deluxe's honky-tonk, feed store, gun shop, used cars, beer, bait, BBQ, Barbershop, laundromat." has been getting a ton of attention on CMT and GAC, but I havn't heard it much on the radio. Even here in Nashville.

I think a lot of people take Trent as a "Texas" roots artist, and therefore he doesn't get the attention that the other 'mainstream' artists get. Part of it is his voice. He has a bit of the Texas singer/songwriter roughness in his voice. But his vocal technique is on a much higher level than other artists such as Pat Green, so he shouldn't be lumped into the Texas group.

As for "Holiday Inn", I think it's a good song, and I hope this one doesn't flop like the other two.

[reception]

It's New & Active this week with 115 plays, 18 stations, and 4 adds.

[reception]

It debuts at # 50 at the R&R Country chart this week.

[EvanJ]

launch.yahoo.com/ar-308102-videos--Trent-Willmon has the video.

[Dustin J.]

This is a decent song and I understanding Sony's reasoning for releasing a ballad after two uptempo tunes, however... I really think the "sleepers" on this album are "The Good Life" and (my personal favorite) "She Don't Hate Me".

DJ