The recording features four different lead vocalists and just as many songwriters; the contrast between these singers’ vocals and their song writing styles keeps the listener interested throughout. This country cd never gets to be “too much of the same” which is more than I can say for Kenny Chesney’s Greatest Hits disc (okay Kenny, you like to vacation in the Caribbean…who doesn’t. Jimmy Buffet isn’t dead yet so knock it off!).
Don’t expect to hear the big production you have come to expect these days from main stream country music releases; with 6ML there just isn’t that kind of time. The resulting product has a definite “garagey” quality kind of like the Gear Daddies had. Appropriately enough the cover features the band in what appears to be a garage.
There are some “dirty” songs here (Deb’s contribution “My Dog is My Copilot” is an extremely racy little song sung so sweetly that it makes me a little uncomfortable but that’s OK, I dig being pushed out of my comfort zone) but, not every song is “dirty”. Adam Z’s “Angel, Devil, Woman” is a song I could hear Charlie Pride singing and that’s even after listening to Charlie’s “Did you Think to Pray”. Kyle’s “Friends like You” would fit right in on Tom T. Hall’s Faster Horses album and Carl shows he’s perfectly capable of writing a would-be/should-be country classic in “Country Song” (this one reminds me of something the ole gang on Hee Haw would have made into a huge production number with Roy Clark and Buck Owens trading vocals).
Nice work everyone. This cd is a nice showcase of the kind of songwriters we have in the 6ML stable and an inspiration to the rest of us. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go listen to Deb’s song again.
by Marc Severin








