10 Year Plan

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Music – The Shires". Theshiresmusic.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016 . Retrieved 21 September 2016. They do remain overly enthralled by the modern pop-country movement, though, which could become a problem as that increasingly oversaturated scene sounds rather watered down and dated. With independent acts such as Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson and Cody Jinks making waves with more authentic, traditional-sounding fare, The Shires should be encouraged to go further down the appealing road they explore on this album’s more organic, rootsy numbers. For Brave: "Chart Archive > 8 March 2015 – 14 March 2015". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015 . Retrieved 12 August 2015.

An album that, surely inspired by the unpredictable time we’ve all just lived through, endeavours to find certainty and safety, ‘10 Year Plan’ is a fine effort that will certainly add copious rays of sunshine to your day, even if it does elicit the feeling that The Shires, from here on out, need to allow their endearing artistry to evolve naturally and not be shaped by outside forces with a different plan for their career. Don’t The Shires somehow show that they are assimilated by the Nashville music scene by that song? They are even including alcohol into the topics reflected in their album – a basic rule in the 1×1 of stereotypes of the genre. The song feels much more powerful than the songs, which I absolutely appreciate. But the song is not as good as a bunch of the Good Years ones. 8. Baby Were Rich The Shires first broke through in 2014 with their single ‘Nashville Grey Skies’, a playful song about Britain needing its own country scene. And that’s something which they helped happen, starting with their 2015 debut ‘Brave’, which became the first ever Top 10 album by a UK country music artist. That success continued with a succession of hit albums: 2016’s ‘My Universe’, 2018’s ‘Accidentally On Purpose’ and 2020’s ‘Good Years’.The Wolfe Brothers Team Up with The Shires". Kix Country. April 2023. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023 . Retrieved 28 May 2023. For Accidentally on Purpose: "Chart Archive > 27 April 2018 – 3 May 2018". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 2 October 2021 . Retrieved 28 April 2018. Official Charts - Home of the Official UK Top 40 Charts". Officialcharts.com. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010 . Retrieved 19 March 2015.

For Greatest Hits: "Chart Archive > 13 March 2020 – 19 March 2020". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021 . Retrieved 14 March 2020. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. The Shires made their national radio debut on 1 May 2014 with a recorded live session with Bob Harris OBE on BBC Radio 2. They performed 2 songs "Brave" and "Only Midnight". [40] In 2017 their new single "Daddy's Little Girl" was released, joining BBC Radio 2's playlist. It is about Rhodes's late father; the video features footage of her and her dad. [21] On 9 March 2017, The Shires were presented with their first CMA Award by Kristian Bush during the songwriters event at the C2C: Country to Country festival. [22] 2018–2020: Accidentally on Purpose [ edit ] Talking about their journey so far, Crissie Rhodes says: “We wanted to get our music to Bob Harris, and we wanted a thousand Facebook followers. At the time that seemed crazy, but Ben was committed to it.”Bensays, “At first you might think this is a sad song, but if you listen to the lyrics it’s saying, ‘Don’t worry when I go, because you’re always in my thoughts.’”

On 26 January 2018, The Shires announced their third studio album Accidentally on Purpose would be released on 20 April 2018 alongside a UK tour. [23] On 8 March 2018, the first single from the album "Guilty" premiered on BBC Radio 2 before being released that day. [24] Thematically, 10 Year Plan is summed up by a line from closing lighters-in-the-air ballad “When It Hurts”: “Real love… takes guts, to keep on fighting through the years/There’s gonna be heartache and tears for the both of us.” But there are no entertaining C&W yarns, just pleading, post-Sheeran/Capaldi solipsism. When Earle’s theatrically emoting voice sings, on “A Bar Without You”, that he could drink bourbon and wine but not enough “to get you off my mind”, it sounds more like he’d run it off down the gym after a frappuccino. In October 2016, The Shires secured a recording contract with American label Big Machine Label Group and its imprint Dot Records. The Shires said: "We are absolutely thrilled to sign with Dot Records in the USA. The UK is our home and we are proud of our success so far, thanks to Decca Records, but it's always been a massive goal for us to build our presence and make a name for ourselves in the USA." [20]Forever Tonight comes with an R&B-alike groove, but still has a country-pop sound. This leads to a very interesting blend. Finally, this leads to more focus on this song than it deserves on this album. 12. Peggy I’m Sorry Bringing wild west country instrumentation to the fore, but still peaking with a classy, transatlantic Fleetwood Mac chorus, it echoes how The Wandering Hearts have successfully married timeless rootsy textures and infectious earworm melodies to create a sound that won’t be dated to any particular scene or era. They were invited to the C2C: Country to Country 2014 Festival and performed at The Town Square Pop Stage on 16 March 2014 outside the London O2 arena. [8] Their first single "Nashville Grey Skies" was released on 4 April 2014 and received its first airplay on the Bob Harris BBC Radio 2 Country show on 3 April 2014. It was added to the BBC Radio 2 "B" Playlist for the week commencing 3 May 2014 and climbed to the "A" playlist the following week. [9] [10] [11] The song was written by Earle before visiting Music City which is a song about hope with a pipe dream of building, and the UK having, a country music capital of its very own. [12] It takes the musicality influences from America whilst maintaining a Britishness with the song writing. It contains facetious lines such as "Well they say it's way too cold for cut-off jeans and they won't be drinking moonshine but G & T's" and "We can build our own Nashville under these grey skies". One tune, “Wild Hearts”, has a preposterous stadium kitsch, an enjoyably catchy anthem with an ironic singalong vibe akin to 1980s Bon Jovi monsters, or maybe Lady Gaga at her most outré. But that’s your lot. The rest is squeaky clean, earnest, super-produced, X Factor-ish suburbia music to be filed next to Fleetwood Mac’s Greatest Hits and brought out when the divorce case looms after Geoff runs off with Dawn from Accounts.