Search - Rachel Williams :: Lonely At The Bottom

Where has Nashville been hiding this artist?

Country Gent | 07/04/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Seeing Rachel Williams one time, buying this CD, and listening to it once opened the floodgates on my confusion as to how the country radio business works. To put it simply, Rachel has more talent than 90 percent of the artists you hear on country radio nowadays, and if the business were fair, she'd be a household name instead of one of Nashville's best kept secrets.



While I guess there are advantages to being the only artist on an obscure indie label (such as being able to cram 16 songs onto a CD without the boss telling you that's a ridiculous idea), this gal needs to hook on with a major promotion machine and fast! The title of this CD, "Lonely at the Bottom" is ironic because Rachel doesn't belong at the bottom of anything!! (Though the title track is a song about breaking up with an ex because she was sick of him always dragging her down because HE was lonely at the bottom in his own misery.)



I have to admit, there have been times I've put this CD in my player and hit the repeat option--and listened to it all the way through for 4 or 5 hours, just losing myself in the songs. My favorite songs on the CD are "That's Why I Picked This Guitar," "The Only Thing Harder Than Leaving," "Final Goodbye," "Firestarter," and "World Famous" though this CD sets the record for most great songs on a single release--16!



If you want to know what 15 dollars well spent is, go get this CD!! You'll be getting in on the ground floor with a singer who is one fortunate break away from vaulting into the legends category, and I mean that. Rachel Williams is THAT good. Too bad radio stations haven't picked up on this fact at all, at least not yet."