Song Review Of Cody Johnson Band’s “Guilty As Can Be”

It's a shame that more of what is hot in Texas when it comes to music is not played on commercial mainstream radio nationwide.This song by The Cody Johnson Band called "Guilty As Can Be" is one of the best songs I have heard in a long time!This is not one of your cookie cutter pop friendly songs that we seem to be spoon fed these days. From the lyrics to the tune, Cody Johnson has finally come up with a song that us fans of traditional hard core country can grab on to. This song has every bit of that old school style in it. It tells a real story and it evokes real emotion. It's a country fan's country song. The first time I heard it was live on KVST when I was station surfing on the web, and I had to stop everything and call my buddies to let them know that finally there is someone that sings "our kinda music."

The song tells about  man who catches his wife cheating and will go to any lengths, even murder, to punish the guy she is with. Even if you have never experienced this before, you can't help but put yourself in his shoes. It's almost as if you walked in on your own wife or girlfriend! True, it is not a song about a teenage girl standing in the rain after a bad day at school. However, I think that if the industry would take more chances on songs like this, there would be some grit put back into the mundane flow of music that we are forced to listen to.