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When it comes to straddling the line between rowdy country music and rebellious
hard rock, no one does it better than The Cadillac Three. Name another band that
can play a country festival with Florida Georgia Line or Keith Urban one day and
then jet off to the U.K. to share the stage with Metallica or Slayer the next.

 On the Nashville trio’s long-awaited fourth album, they push their country,
hard rock and southern rock bona fides to the limit while also introducing
elements of funk and soul. The result is a dirty, greasy and hard-hitting sound
that can only belong to The Cadillac Three — one they've christened COUNTRY
FUZZ. 

But COUNTRY FUZZ isn’t just the name of the group’s new album. It’s also their
aesthetic, the phrase that best sums up both the music and lifestyle of
singer-guitarist Jaren Johnston, drummer Neil Mason and lap-steel alchemist
Kelby Ray, three guys who have become closer than brothers while growing up and
playing in bands together in America’s most buzzed-about music city.

“We’ve been COUNTRY FUZZ forever,” says Jaren. “When I think of Southern rock, I
think of Lynyrd Skynyrd. When I think of country, I think Garth Brooks. This
record and this band are all of that. But it’s also ZZ Top and Jerry Reed. It’s
Medeski Martin & Wood and Prince. There’s no better way to describe who we are
than Country Fuzz.”

“It’s not easy to land on something that is your own thing, but we’re proud to
say we did that,” Neil says of the band’s sound. “It works for us in any
direction that we’re going. COUNTRY FUZZ is anything from a stripped-down
country ballad to a sludgy, riff-heavy rock song. And it’s also country-funk.”

“We’ve matured as musicians and as a band,” says Kelby, whose lap steel lays
down the bass line for The Cadillac Three and is largely responsible for the
trio’s one-of-a-kind vibe. “Our sound is second nature to us and that only comes
from playing together for as long as we have.”

Averaging 140 shows a year, The Cadillac Three are perpetually burning up the
highway, Traveling 40 out of 52 weeks. It’s grueling, committed work, but Jaren,
Neil and Kelby wouldn’t have it any other way. Nor would the band’s fans, who
make pilgrimages to see The Cadillac Three and will often catch an entire
weekend’s worth of gigs. To reward that devotion, the group was adamant about
giving their fans as many songs as they could on COUNTRY FUZZ.

The 16 tracks on the record touch on all eras of the band’s history, from the
swampy stomp of their 2012 self-titled debut and the power chords of 2016’s BURY
ME IN MY BOOTS to the polish of 2017’s LEGACY. 

The trio wrote much of COUNTRY FUZZ, which they also produced, with their live
show in mind. ”As many shows as we play, we still switch our sets up every
night. We really try to do something different, and now we have 16 new songs
that we can add in,” says Neil.

With its serpentine lick and Jaren’s thick-as-syrup delivery, “Slow Rollin”
echoes the band’s most-played live song, the fan favorite “Tennessee Mojo.” The
group wrote “Slow Rollin” on the bus before a show in Las Vegas, with Jaren
plugging in and rattling the back lounge. “I had the amp in the back of the bus,
and when you turn it to 11, it’s loud as fuck,” he laughs. “I wrote that riff
and was like, ‘How the hell didn’t we write ‘Slow Rollin’ yet?’ It’s such an
obvious TC3 song.”

So is “Hard Out Here for a Country Boy,” a tongue-in-cheek list of all the
things that good ol’ boys deal with on a daily basis while trying to live “that
slow life in a real fast world.” Chris Janson sings a verse and adds harmonica,
while the band’s recent tourmate Travis Tritt lends his unmistakable voice to
the commanding choruses.

“Heat” is equally hard-hitting. A fiery salute to a lady who’s as combustible as
“in a bar fight with gasoline,” it slinks along on Neil’s rhythmic beat before
exploding in a noisy breakdown that blends Kelby’s steel with Jaren’s guitar.
Even so, Neil calls it more of a vocal song.”It’s a chance for Jaren to show off
his voice and the way that it’s matured,” he says. 

While the band still sing about cold beer, hell-raising and Saturday nights, the
idea of maturity underscores all of COUNTRY FUZZ. The Cadillac Three have never
been as cohesive a unit as they are here, with all three musicians seemingly
sharing the same musically tattooed brain. When Kelby adds subtle slide in the
stunning closer “After Last Call” to accentuate Jaren’s delivery, Neil
instinctively knows to pull back and give the notes room to breathe. “We’ve
always been pretty good at that,” says Jaren. “But we’re all focusing more on
our instruments. I care more about playing guitar now than I ever have, and I’ve
been honing that. And Kelby is figuring out different ways to make his lap steel
work in the songs, especially with the funkier stuff.”

That new funky direction is readily apparent in the devil disco of “The Jam” and
on the swerving “Blue El Camino,” two tracks on COUNTRY FUZZ that point to the
future of The Cadillac Three. “When we started playing “The Jam” at soundcheck,
I used the lap steel to build a bass line and glue together Jaren’s funky
guitar,” says Kelby. “It’s a cool new sound for us”

“The funkier aspects of this record is where we’re wanting to go, but with big
ol’ country hooks,” adds Jaren, “because that is what we’re addicted to from
growing up in Nashville. We love country songwriting and huge hooks.”

Still, The Cadillac Three refuse to be categorized. Listen to the song “Labels,”
a brilliant, succinct slice of songwriting from Neil with Corey Crowder and Luke
Dick, that asks, “I wonder what you see when you look at me?” It’s a pulsing
anthem, with Jaren repeating, “Nobody wants to be labeled,” and stands as one of
the band’s most incisive songs.

Along with the heavy-funk explorations, Country Fuzz marks a first for the
group: “Back Home” is the only song the group has ever recorded that at least
one of its members didn’t write. Co-written by Craig Wiseman, James McNair and
Chris Tompkins, the tune is a straight-ahead blast of country-rock nostalgia and
proved irresistible to The Cadillac Three. 

“I couldn’t imagine anyone doing “Back Home” more than I could us doing it,”
says Neil. “That’s the true test of what is or isn’t a Cadillac Three song.”

“The story was so good and the syncopation of the lyrics flowed so well that I
knew we could make it work,'“ says Jaren. “That song is a hit, but it’s still
very much us.” 

Without a doubt, The Cadillac Three know exactly who they are — and they say the
same is true of their fans. It’s all one big community that’s summed up
by Country Fuzz. The trio is even launching a clothing line under the Country
Fuzz name. 

“The Cadillac Three are at a place now where we’re not scared to take chances
and see what we can actually become,” says Jaren.

 “The path we’re on is the natural way we do things, making each album and idea
bigger than the last one,” Kelby says. “It's like a pitstop on a motorcycle
ride, where you stop here, grab a beer, look around, learn from it, and then
keep riding.”

And COUNTRY FUZZ provides the soundtrack for that ride.

“This album has a little bit of everything, and you can see where we started and
where we’re going,” Jaren says. “The Cadillac Three is evolving in a badass new
way.”


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