TelluRide - 'Four Square Miles'

Four Square Miles Bottom Line:

TelluRide's music is a special blend of country music that has the chance to appeal to many different types of fans. You have some rock elements, pop country elements, and far more in-between. This is a solid effort from the guys and they should be around for a while. The talent is there and now it's up to the country music audience.

About TelluRide:

Though the group TelluRide has only been together since 2006, they've already opened for the likes of such major artists as Lonestar, Little Big Town and Billy Ray Cyrus. Their "played show" count is already three hundred and getting higher with the passing days.

The band consists of five members: Adam Craig (lead vocals / guitar), Cain Hall (singer / guitar), Jimi Hendrix (yes, that's his name) on bass and vocals, Ryan Jones (singer / guitar / keyboards) and Brian Smith on percussion. With a new-found buzz on their music and magazine spreads as far as the eye can see, something tells me we will all being hearing more about this group in the near future.

Four Square Miles About The Songs:

"Kansas City Green" will no doubt appeal to the ladies as they listen to lyrics where a man says "It's like she was created by my own imagination. Like the photographs of all my fantasies" and "She took my breath away even like California can't." Some men might even admit to wishing they could express these types of emotion to those they love.

When you hear the few lines of "Stay," you might get the impression the couple has been together for quite a long time - then he talks about how he just met her last night. Though they've only known each other for an extremely short period of time, he's already begging her to stay and not to leave him feeling lonely. He also tells her that she must want to stay a few more minutes since she's still there listening to his pleas.

"Four Square Miles" is the type of song you can either identify with personally or easily picture in your head. That's how it usually is with "small town" themed lyrics. The first part of the song talks about the nice things about town (football, bonfires, church), then goes into how after a while it gets a little too old and you want to move on to what you think will be bigger and better things - outside those four square miles.

I don't usually like mentioning how "this artist" or "this song" sounds like someone else's works, but it's uncanny how much "Good Love" reminds me of the type of song Keith Urban would write or record. Maybe with a dash of Rascal Flatts also. The upbeat tempo, easy-listening, rolling down the highway feel is catchy and infectious. One of my favorite songs on the album. It not only sounds good but would have appeal with men and women as well as young and older fans. Listening to this song makes you feel good. "Temptation" is another one of my favorites and has more of a gritty feel with the use of overall darker sounding instruments including a harmonica and what sounds like a dobro or resonator guitar.

If you're a fan of songs having some sentimentality to them, there are two included on Four Square Miles that will appeal to you. The first is "Pencil Marks," which is about a father who could never get over the fact his son was growing up so fast. With each pencil mark, not only did he realize the child's height was growing but time was also flying by. After a few years that son became a father and finds himself feeling the same way his father did. The second sentimental / emotion-filled song is "Hope Happens Here." It has the ability to put a tear in your eye and give you hope at the very same time. "Hope Happens Here" puts the finishing touch on an album that will take you through different subject matters and sounds without it sounding like you've been on a rollercoaster ride. TelluRide has what it takes to become very successful with their pop-country brand of music.

Release date: January 2009 - American Roots Records

Four Square Miles Track List

1. Phone Song
2. Kansas City Green
3. Stay
4. Four Square Miles
5. Pencil Marks
6. Good Love
7. Temptation
8. Without Saying
9. Cheatin' Jesus
10. Riverbank
11. Pickstown