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Jaryd Lane
One of Southern Louisiana's next Big Stars
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Jaryd Lane – Riding for the Brand

While traveling through Southern Louisiana, we stopped at a local County Fair to see Platinum Country Star, Billy Currington. The Cajun Hot Sauce Festival had all sorts of things for the locals to see and taste. Fantastic local favorites like Fried Catfish, Pulled Pork dripping with locally made BBQ sauce that made your mouth water just smelling it.

Southern Beauties wandering around in their cut-off Daisy Dukes and those real Cowboys, not the type you see at the yearly Hank Williams Jr. concert. No, these boys looked liked they lived on a horse and actually made Boot Cut Wranglers look good.

Local Fairs are always fun people watching, but what surprised me most, was the opening band. We had never heard of him and hadn’t even planned on watching him; we had come to see the headliner.

That was till he took the stage and we started hearing his mesmerizing voice. We fought our way through the crowd of screaming girls and went behind the stage where we could really see him work the whipped up crowd.

I asked a security guard who he was and why the women were going so crazy? Cindy slapped me on the back of my bald head saying “Have you looked at him, He’s Smoking Hot!!” The security guard said he was a local boy, and has a few number one songs on the local country stations.

The local girls naturally love him for his good looks and deep southern drawl. It was at that time when he sang one of his songs off his newest album that Cindy and I looked at each other and said “This is that song!” We had heard a song on the radio a few days earlier and had wrote down the artist saying, “We have to get this CD.”

For the next hour, we sat there listening to one of the best performances we’ve ever heard. Being in the entertainment business, we’ve seen a lot of shows, and this young country star knows how to play the crowd.

Jaryd Lane introduced his band, let them take a break mid-way through the show, and sat on a stool singing a few songs acoustic for the first 10 rows of screaming girls. Jaryd brought the band back on stage and brought the house down all the time making it look like he’s been doing this for years.

After the show, he came backstage and gave Cindy and I a few minutes of his time. He sat talking to us like we were old friends. Even though he had hundreds of girls screaming for an autograph and a chance to get a picture with him, he sat talking to us and even gave us both of his CD’s to listen to.

It wasn’t till a few days later that I realized how talented this young guy is. Jaryd Lane’s new album, Riding For The Brand is amazing!! From the first song to the last, it blends sounds of the southern rock from Lynyrd Skynyrd, a little Stone Temple Pilots acoustic, a young George Strait and his own addictive sounds to make one of the best albums I’ve heard in years.

If you’d like to hear some fantastic music, check out his website to see where you can buy his CD. www.jarydlane.com or at www.myspace/jarydlane.com

Back to the Cajun Hot Sauce Festival in Louisiana where after we heard the opening band, we sort of forgot about the headliner. It’s rare to see a show, and walk out more impressed with the little guy who was supposed to get you hyped up for the main event. Maybe it’s time to move Jaryd Lane up to the Headliner.

Pat Bonish - Every Miles A Memory

PS. On a side note, a few days later we were driving through Arkansas on our way to another event; flipping through the channels, and who do we hear but Mr. Jaryd Lane on NPR’s Prairie Home Companion, singing one of his acoustic melodies. Maybe this local boy is bigger than we thought!

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