Keeping It Fresh

Today I have some music for you by the artist SoMo. Now SoMo is a singer songwriter from Texas (represent!) and sounds nothing like the stereotypical Texan artist. For those of you who are expecting some twangy country and banjo music, you will be quite disappointed by what you hear today. Or are maybe a little relieved that it isn't that kind of music? Either way, this song does not have your typical music sound at all. SoMo is and R&B and soul singer, something that we don't necessarily hear from the Texan crowd. But I am a huge fan of that expansion and desire to push outside the boundaries. Now getting to the actual song, the first thing I have to point out, is how completely and utterly sexy an electric guitar can sound when it is playing riffs through a muffled filter. We get to hear those riffs and note changes, but it is slurred in a way, muffled up so that you cannot tell when one note clearly ends and another begins. And that kind of fluidity adds such a sensual a