March 6, 2011 Grizzly Rose, Denver, CO
Close call Easton Corbin. I bought tickets to this show because I love his traditional sounding deep country voice and his radio hits, ‘A Little More Country Than That’ and ‘Roll With It’. He reminds me (and probably most of everyone else) of a George Strait Jr. I’ll start with the bad: 11 covers in the set. Now, covers aren’t all bad and with a perfect deep country voice and a steel guitar in his band I assumed his covers to be in the likes of Vern Gosdin, Conway Twitty and Waylon Jennings. However, my assumption failed to consider that the average age of the audience was about 19 thus, many of his covers were newer songs. He opened with ‘A Little More Country Than That’ and after that I started to question, ‘A Little More Country Than What?’ as his next covers interspersed with his own album songs included: Brooks and Dunn, Alan Jackson, Gary Allan, Alan Jackson again, and then finally, an oasis, a Merle Haggard cover of ‘Silver Wings’. This was only to be followed up by a Kenny Chesney cover but then another Merle tune, then Conway Twitty’s, ‘Love to Lay You Down’. He punctuated the covers with a couple more of his radio hits were, ‘Roll With It’ and ‘Love You Back’ and an interlude in one cover of Jerry Reed’s ‘Amos Moses’. He started his encore performance with an amazing acoustic rendition of George Strait’s ‘The Chair’. He closed with 2 newer George Strait hits. ‘Ohhhh, I like you too but to tell you the truth’……..you should’ve ended at ‘The Chair’…..you just can’t top that.
What was missing: more traditional covers (less new country pop)
-Meghan♥
For the Love of the Music 
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