Jim Chestnut
Chestnut Productions - Singer-Songwriter
“It’s easy for me to champion the skills of my contemporaries and predecessors in country music. It is not easy for me to do the same for today’s country performers. For example, Sammi Smith was my favorite singer of all time until I recently heard Lacy Brinson. Like Smith two music generations or so before, Lacy uses her voice to sing her truth, and her truth is stunning. Many of today’s singers (if not most) produce a contrived sound that might pass for style but mostly lacks substance. Not so with Lacy. She sings with natural honesty that draws listeners to this woman who— as a child—sang with her circuit-riding grandfather as he preached in one small Southern Baptist church after another in the South. It's all about the song for Lacy. She doesn't sing to bring attention to herself; she sings to connect the listener to the song. And, it's magic.”