Album Review – Jon Pardi’s “Mr. Saturday Night”
This Jon Pardi guy must’ve taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque or something. He’s all wrong side up. Doesn’t he understand that the arc of a country music star is to start off real twangy so you get support from the grassroots, and then as soon as you start to blow up a little bit, switch to pop or rock to cash in and say you never liked the way country stifled your creativity anyway, breaking the hearts of your core fans?
Jon Pardi started his career as the slightly more twangy mainstream guy who would still make you wince with his radio singles. Now, he’s more country then many of your favorite Texas and Red Dirt guys, and is having great success with it. He’s not chasing trends, he’s setting them. And the trend he’s setting the pace for right now is playing country music. This isn’t “More country than most of the mainstream.” This is country, period, no qualifier. And due to his continued success, others are being allowed to follow his lead. Pardi is significantly responsible for the return to twang we’ve experienced over the last few years.
Jon Pardi leans on the fiddle in a way we haven’t heard since the Western swing era. And most importantly, radio is playing it. He also shamelessly leans into the country music tradition of the double entendre, uncaring if some consider it hokey. Like Mike & the Moonpies, Midland, and other resurgent honky tonk bands, Jon Pardi and his co-writers embrace the clichés of country music, understanding that they’re evergreen and classic, and deceptively cool, at least to the right audience that knows what country music is supposed to sound like.
No, Mr. Saturday Night is not 14 ringers straight in a row. There’s some fluff and punch-outs here for sure. The thing about double entendres and wordplay is sometimes they just don’t land. “Neon Light Speed” takes a bit of a leap in the writing. So does the collaboration with Midland, “Longneck Way to Go.” When interior California-native Jon Pardi crows, “Smoking a doobie on the Guadalupe” in the next to last song on the album, you wince like it’s a bad dad joke.
But the title track makes you smile with the way the wordplay works, reminding you of all of those old great country songs that twisted the meaning of words in both clever and cutting ways. Though this album is lacking some depth, “Santa Cruz” is more of a sincere moment. “New Place to Drink” it’s just a badass classic ol’ drinking song. And perhaps the best example of the witty wordplay and innuendo on this album is the hilarious, smart, and irreverent “Reverse Cowgirl.” More of this in mainstream country music, please.
Obviously this is not a project of deep introspection. Jon Pardi knows who he is, knows what works, and at this point in his career, he’s been allowed to embrace it. He’s the life of the Pardi (yuck, yuck), turning heartbreak into a good time, both in his songs, and in real life. And even when he’s cutting a radio single like “Last Night Lonely,” the fiddle and twang are right there in the forefront, and it finds the sweet spot that is both country and commercially viable.
Even when the songwriting is silly and simple, the music here is still undeniably country. And even in a few spots where the music turns more contemporary (“Your Heart or Mine” for example) the writing is still country. This album could have very well been 10 songs though, and would have been better off for it. But it’s also got some really excellent tracks not worth overlooking.
Some will still say, “You’ve gone soft, Trig! You would have ripped this six years ago.” Maybe so. Or maybe Jon Pardi has gone hard, and is dragging mainstream country with him. This isn’t 2016 Jon Pardi either, and this isn’t 2016 mainstream country music. Country is now more country, and we have Jon Pardi in large part to thank for it.
1 1/2 Guns Up (7.6 of 10)
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September 5, 2022 @ 8:25 am
Album has grown on me more and more with each listen. “Your Heart or Mine” is a jam. Rooted in country yet has this killer groove. Great example of when mixing genres works. I encourage everyone to watch Jon’s interview with Grady Smith on Youtube. The long game has paid off and Country Music is better off for it. 8.25/10
September 5, 2022 @ 9:06 am
Your Heart or Mine is the next single too. It gives me major Dirt on my Boots vibes. He’s playing the game at radio but good for him, especially since it will only enhance his career moving forward. Maybe arena tours will be next?
September 5, 2022 @ 8:39 am
I’m really glad to see a positive review not that I thought you would give it a negative review. Listened to it 5 times this weekend and was impressed and thought man some of the songs could be a little stronger but country songs they are and are at worst fun. Even “Your heart or Mine” is a great banger despite it being the most modern sounding song on here. The doobie song is stupid and easily the worst track but thank you for pointing out “Reverse Cowgirl” and praising the writing. I was full on prepared hate it by the title and thought it was so clever that they made a sincere heartbreak song yet still put in the sexual innuendo’s and it didn’t take anything away from the song. Currently my favorite song is “Raincheck”. Sounds so classic and I think the production and his vocal. Great. I was not on the Pardi train but I sure am now.
September 5, 2022 @ 8:54 am
Why settle? Access to the real thing is easy for most(if they have a decent internet connection). Why even bother with a mainstream act that leaves you wanting more?
September 5, 2022 @ 11:19 am
I don’t think listening to Jon Pardi is settling at all. The three song examples I posted here are straight up country music as good as you will find anywhere, and there’s more where that came from. As I said in the review, there are also some pretty lame songs on this album too. But Pardi at his best is country music as good as anyone, mainstream or otherwise.
September 5, 2022 @ 1:54 pm
….”as good as you will find anywhere”…..
I know it’s subject to the listener, but there’s no freaking way you actually believe that. If you told me you believe it, I’d say you’re full of 💩.
And that’s before we even discuss the lack of authenticity on the performer’s part, which renders something less than equal before a single note is heard.
September 8, 2022 @ 7:47 am
He IS authentic if you know anything about him.
November 1, 2022 @ 12:08 am
Maybe your full of shit? Have you ever thoght of that. You think you’re just because you don’t like a guy you perceive as mainstream. Your nothing special contrary to what you believe.
November 1, 2022 @ 12:10 am
Just because he’s mainstream doesn’t mean his is bad. Just like not all of the obscure singers you listen to are good. What even is the real thing you speak of?
September 5, 2022 @ 8:55 am
This album gave me an ORGASM
September 5, 2022 @ 10:19 am
Were you at work? Please tell me you weren’t.
September 5, 2022 @ 12:48 pm
Son, it’s Labor Day.
My Labor took the day off.
September 5, 2022 @ 9:00 am
The music is country. Unfortunately, he just can’t sing very good. He sounds like a karaoke singer, using heavily exaggerated twang for theatrics.
September 5, 2022 @ 11:31 am
Funny you mention that twang. I was in the car with my younger brother, who’s not a country fan, a couple of days ago and I had Jon Pardi on. I was telling him that Jon was from northern California and the first thing he asked was “Where’d he get that accent?” My brother’s married to a San Jose native, so he should know. I really had no good answer for him. That said, the exaggerated twang is not a deal-breaker for me on an album as strong as this, and Jon’s not the only commercial country artist who overdoes the twang.
September 5, 2022 @ 7:05 pm
It’s a dilemma for C(c)ountry performers who aren’t from The South. Everyone understands C(c)ountry music is Southern music, and these performers seem to feel it necessary to sing with fake twang, as if the only other option is to not be a C(c)ountry singer. I get why they do it, but there have been several great C(c)ountry performers who weren’t from The South and who didn’t try to put on the twang.
Marty Robbins
Hank Snow
Eddie Rabbitt
Connie Smith
Those are four that come to mind immediately.
September 6, 2022 @ 10:54 am
Good choices.
September 5, 2022 @ 9:09 pm
I’m from Vacaville, the next town over from where he’s from. Idk if it’s just out here in Nor Cal but a lot of the real rural guys sincerely talk with some sort of an accent. Idk if they consciously adopt it or not. I just assumed he knew a nasally-style works for him, but hell if I know.
September 6, 2022 @ 6:22 am
I grew up in Bakersfield. My parents moved there from the south (Arkansas), and most of my friends parents or grandparents were from the south. Many southerners migrated to California seeking the Hollywood dream in the 50s and 60s, but when they didn’t find it they settled in the Central Valley farming communities. There is a definite accent for many in the valley who grew up with parents with southern accents. Mix in the Mexican imigrants and and others from the area, and you have a kind of spanglish twang.
John Paul Hodge wrote a pretty good song about it called Bakersfield Drawl on his Outlaw Bits album.
September 6, 2022 @ 9:40 am
I spent three years in southern Arkansas as a young aspiring sportswriter in the late ’70s and got plenty of exposure to that accent, as you might imagine. I listen to Justin Moore, who’s from Poyen, sing “thaaat’s whah we draannk” and hear authenticity. Whatever accent Pardi is singing in sounds way too deep Southern to be something he picked up growing up in Dixon, even if his parents were from the South like yours were.
As King Honky said, it’s probably always going to be a challenge for country singers from other parts of the country to sing the music in their hometown accents and still connect with their audience. Jo Dee Messina, who’s from not far from where I grew up in Massachusetts, sure didn’t sound like she’s from New England on her recordings in the ’90s, but she didn’t go whole hog on the down-home thing like Pardi either.
September 5, 2022 @ 9:25 pm
San Jose isn’t far from Dixon in mileage, but it’s a thousand miles away from it in culture and way of life. There’s a lot of guys in northern and central California who speak like that.
September 6, 2022 @ 10:36 am
Howard,
Funny you mention Justin Moore; he’s one of the biggest fakers out there. And that brings up an additional point on the same topic of accents.
A lot of commercial Country singers, who ARE from The South, and who even have rural backgrounds, exaggerate their natural accents to the point it sounds fake. And I believe they do it for the same reason non-Southerners do: no matter how Southern or country they are, they all seem to instinctively know that they’re cell-phone kids, internet kids, etc. They know they don’t have the “cred” that all the legends had, even newer legends like Alan Jackson or Patty Loveless, so they lean on image and persona to prove how “country” they are. That’s also partly why Checklist-Country exists.
September 5, 2022 @ 11:53 am
I’d definitely listen to him more, if that weren’t the case.
October 31, 2022 @ 11:58 pm
Unfortunately, it seems like you can’t hear very well. Pardi is an abosolutely fines singer, you just lack the taste to realize it.
September 5, 2022 @ 9:00 am
Put that thing in reverse LOL. How is he the first to use that innuendo?
Always had a soft spot for this guy, especially after seeing him live.
September 5, 2022 @ 9:02 am
I have a reputation for being the grumbly old ‘Hawkshaw Hawkins or bust’ type of accept no imitations country fan
I can truthfully say that it sounds like country music to me.
And I don’t say it lightly.
It’s haggard era melodies with Alan Jackson era instrumentation
And I understand why some people who didn’t love the nineties the way they loved the sixties will struggle with this sort of music
Because I used to struggle with nineties country too
But I’ve come around to realizing the nineties weren’t as bad as I used to think
September 5, 2022 @ 9:08 am
Another thought:
I don’t know how to describe ‘IT’ when I refer to the little nugget that sonically defines something as ‘real country’
It might be a combination of factors it might be one indescribable thing
But if I can click three videos and say ‘yep, sounds country’ then this must have some of ‘it’
But remember that this was never intended for me
I have all those old country records, Kenny price, Don Walser, etc
This is INTENDED for disenfranchised radio listeners, not people who successfully live without terrestrial radio
And I’d say that they’re getting something good
September 5, 2022 @ 10:05 am
Fuzz,
I love radio. I miss it; I don’t like living without it. But they’ll have to do way better than this to get me back.
The love for radio is pretty clearly generational. With you being a millennial, I can understand how you wouldn’t understand what it meant to people.
September 5, 2022 @ 9:14 am
On initial listen it’s probably not the home run I’d hoped for, compared to Heartache Medication, and it’s a bit front-loaded and overlong to my ears, but there’s more bangers here than not.
I’ve got a soft spot for tongue-in-cheek Spanglish lyrics (and “tropical/Mexican/vacation” lyrical themes) in country so, not unlike “Tequila Little Time” from the last album, I get a kick out of “Smokin’ a Doobie”.
Also, I really like the vocal harmonies on “Longneck Way To Go”. Say what you want about Midland but Mark Wystrach’s vocal tone hits right to me, not unlike his duet with Mike Harmeier on “Smooth Shot of Whiskey” on the Touch of You album.
September 5, 2022 @ 9:27 am
Is Drayton Farley’s new album on your radar?
September 5, 2022 @ 11:20 am
Yes, Drayton Farley and many, many more artists are on my radar. I try to review as much music as I can.
September 5, 2022 @ 9:28 am
Will this be mainstream country album of the year?
Other contender being Miranda’s album.
September 5, 2022 @ 12:35 pm
Well I like it. He and Bart Butler just know how to make a good sounding record. They pick good songs, write a few……errr a few less on this one but that’s fine. I like the way they mix up tempos and feels, throw some fun lyrics, hooks etc……Still sounds Pardi! Might I cut a track or 2 for the rotation?? I might…… Will I drive all the way to Milwaukee Fri to see Pardi, Lainey, and Hailey…..it’s possible but probably more of a game time decision. Kinda miffed they didn’t make a stop here as well.
September 6, 2022 @ 7:14 pm
We were going to see them on Thursday in Rochester MN but it was canceled late last week. Anyone know why??. The venue described ‘unforeseen circumstances’ but that’s all we got.
September 7, 2022 @ 11:30 pm
Two of Jon’s bandmates had the virus.
September 5, 2022 @ 12:36 pm
I like Jon. Been a fan since the beginning. This album is heavy on drinking songs. Too many! Every song.
September 7, 2022 @ 5:16 am
Huge Jon Pardi fan & I agree. It doesn’t completely ruin the album for me, but the drinking theme is very repetitive. I think California Sunrise will always be his best & most varied album.
September 5, 2022 @ 12:54 pm
Trig, I think you gave Heartache Medication album a 7.5 three years ago. Does this mean you enjoyed Mr Saturday Night a tad bit more?
In my opinion, this new album isn’t quite on the same level as Heartache Med or California Sunrise.
September 5, 2022 @ 12:59 pm
I think this is a tad better than “Heartache Medication.” That was a more well-rounded album, but this one has better top songs. If he had taken a couple of the worst songs off this, it probably would have reached an 8. With “California Sunrise,” he was still stuck trying to please his corporate masters, while working in as much twang as he could.
September 5, 2022 @ 1:29 pm
Good to know!!
Also I’m sure you are aware, but Jon mentioned he’s releasing a Deluxe edition of Mr Sat Night next year…. And a collab with Luke Bryan will be on it. So guessing the completed project will have 18+ songs. Honestly I don’t like this deluxe edition trend.
September 5, 2022 @ 1:08 pm
That there, “I need a new place to drink” sounds pretty darn country to me.
September 5, 2022 @ 1:12 pm
Personally, I loved this album front to back. Just commenting to show support for those couple songs you singled out. “Neon Light Speed” is actually one of my favorites off the album. “Longneck” may not be the best lyric, but the music is great and hearing Pardi and Midland together is awesome, even if the song itself is a little disappointing. I don’t personally smoke so I didn’t think “Smokin” would be for me, but man it’s got some of the best instrumentation on the album. Beautiful stuff. To anyone who hasn’t listened, these songs may still hit you right like they did for me. In my opinion the whole album was extremely strong. Good review Trig, just wanted to support those songs.
September 5, 2022 @ 2:34 pm
I’ve always liked pardi. I don’t listen to the radio much anymore or at least not a station that’s plays a lot of current but he’s country enough for me. I’ll have to give this album a listen at some point.
September 5, 2022 @ 5:00 pm
Sorry to go off topic but…
I just got home from the Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives concert here in Denmark and I’m still in awe! They were killing it! He did not sign my album cover, he signed all of my album covers! (he told me he writes very fast, so no problem) What a gentleman! What a legend! What a Country Royalty! Sam Williams was opening the night and he was awesome too and he signed my wife’s album cover even though he seemed very shy. What a gentleman! What a legend to-be! What a Country Royalty!
Neither my wife or I have made any albums but I think you get what I mean…
Thank you so very much Mr. Stuart and Mr. Williams for a night to cherrish and remember.
And thank you to Jon Pardi and Mr. Trigger for giving me the space and opportunity to write this.
September 5, 2022 @ 6:04 pm
Reverse Cowgirl and New Place to Drink are both great. These are great examples of COUNTRY songs in the mainstream, and 90’s-inspired country songs done respectfully, instead of trying to hop on the trend’s bandwagon. To be fair, though, Pardi was making 90’s-country inspired songs before it became “cool” to do so, so kudos to him. 👏🏻
September 5, 2022 @ 7:27 pm
Also, does anyone else think Reverse Cowgirl sounds like a 90’s—early 2000s George Strait song, sonically? Or is it just me?
September 6, 2022 @ 6:40 am
I did. In fact the second the the fiddles started off the song it immediately reminded me of George Strait sound wise
September 6, 2022 @ 10:22 am
It sounds like a Dixie Chicks track. So like 1999/2000
September 6, 2022 @ 10:17 am
I’m having trouble taking “Reverse Cowgirl” seriously as a sincere heartbreak ballad. I mean, I get the tongue-in-cheek vibe and wordplay Pardi’s all about, but the song is performed as a sincere heartbreak ballad, while the lyrics suggest otherwise.
It’d be like writing a tribute song about your dead dog, loading it with subtle innuendo and calling it “Doggy Style” – wouldn’t work, at all. In my mind, if you’re gonna do a song called “Reverse Cowgirl” you should just fully commit to the “joke” and perform the song as such.
September 5, 2022 @ 9:23 pm
I know some people will question Jon’s authenticity regarding his accent as a native Californian, but I can absolutely confirm that this is not some act. I don’t know Jon personally, but we have some mutual friends that have the exact same accent. He grew up working on ranches, farming, and a little bit of rodeo. California is a huge place, and the number 1 agricultural state by a mile. It’s far more varied than people realize in culture, accent, and way of life.
September 5, 2022 @ 10:10 pm
This comes up every time you talk about Jon Pardi. People see “California,” and they think Beverly Hills. Meanwhile, Dixon might as well be Tulsa. Much of interior and Northern California was settled by Okies, and a lot of that culture and even some accents still persist.
September 5, 2022 @ 10:22 pm
Not to make it political, but people are always surprised when I tell them that 6 million people voted for Trump in California on in 2020, which is more than any other state. It’s just that 11 million people voted for Biden.
It’s hard to comprehend exactly how many people live here and how varied it is, even for people who live here. I’ve met many people from the coast or southern California that have no idea what it’s like in Northern California or even thought about it at all outside of the forest fires.
September 6, 2022 @ 12:10 pm
“Not to make it political, but people are always surprised when I tell them that 6 million people voted for Trump in California on in 2020, which is more than any other state. It’s just that 11 million people voted for Biden.”
: D Seriously?
Stop believing everything you are spoon fed.
“Not to get political.”
Might surprise you how well travelled and well versed a lot of the SCM readership are.
September 6, 2022 @ 12:45 pm
Sorry, in hindsight I came off as condescending. That’s just been my experience when I talk to people from out of state that people don’t know how varied California can be.
September 6, 2022 @ 1:13 pm
: D That’s Ok, No Worries.
It is surprising how people can become so singularly – focused, as it were. Not understand, for instance, just how varied/vast, California is.
I get that way with Texas/Texans. From the panhandle/West Texas, all the way down, i tend to lump Texans into one big group. Love them
September 6, 2022 @ 5:31 am
To be clear, I’m not saying he sings with a fake accent because I saw where he’s from and drew that conclusion. I’m saying he sings with a fake accent, because the accent he sings with is fake. I mention him not being Southern as a possible reason he feels compelled to sing with a Southern accent…I suspect he feels a need to “be the real thing”.
Please spare me the geographic and cultural comments about CA. I spent a Summer out there, working as a wrangler and maintenance worker, in the mountains. California is full of cowboys, none of whom speak or sing with Southern accents.
September 6, 2022 @ 9:20 am
A whole summer…
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/august/california-dialect-linguistics-080612.html
“Parts of the dialect differences likely come from patterns of migration into California. People living in the Central Valley may have more Southern-sounding speech than people who live on the coast, largely because of farmers who moved to the Central Valley from Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
“If you look at Redding, the importance of the Dust Bowl migration is huge,” said Eckert. “A lot of the Okies landed up in that area, so there’s a huge influence of Southern dialects.”
The Southern influence is especially evident in pronunciation and syntax. One striking Southern feature found in Redding is the use of “was” where English traditionally uses “were” (for example, “You was going” instead of “You were going”).”
September 6, 2022 @ 10:23 am
I was waiting to see who the first person would be, to call out the “one whole Summer thing”. I’m surprised it’s someone I’ve never seen here before.
You may have missed my point though, which is that I’m fully aware that Los Angeles and Orange counties aren’t representative of California as a whole. There are tons of cowboys and country people in California. And they may very well speak with some type of rural accent. But it is not the Southern, redneck accent that Pardi puts on when he sings.
You folks don’t realize who you’re talking to here. I’ve had to convince people that The Hag isn’t from Muskogee. I’m fully aware of American history, migration patterns etc.
September 6, 2022 @ 11:36 am
Who you are and the fact you have told people Haggard was from California , Oildale to be exact, really is irrelevant to the conversation. And who really cares if you think Pardi sings with what you might consider a Southern/redneck accent? Is it cultural appropriation you are worried about? Maybe his parents were raised in the South? Maybe he hangs out with people from the South and he picked up the accent? Does it matter?
I listened to the album and thought it was an Ok. Better than most if its getting airtime on commercial radio.
And as for why you haven’t seen me here before, I tend to read what is posted and am not compelled to post MY opinion when I have a different one.
Posting personal opinions in a comments section is one of the most futile thing a person can do.
September 6, 2022 @ 11:40 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ijwqxT9SIU
Robbie Fulks kinda sums it up.
September 6, 2022 @ 12:26 pm
…”Who you are and the fact you have told people Haggard was from California , Oildale to be exact, really is irrelevant to the conversation.”…..
You’re still missing my point. Which is, that although there may be people who don’t understand American history, including the Dustbowl migration, I’m not one of those people.
If you like the album, then you should listen to it. To me, it sounds like the same ol cheesy singing.
September 6, 2022 @ 6:37 pm
Trigger, I find the topic of authenticity so fascinating, especially in regards to popular culture and language. Is Jon Pardi’s accent exaggerated in his songs? Probably, yes. I’m not a linguistic expert by any means, but I don’t associate his accent as a fake southern accent at all. He sounds like many students or friends I’ve had. People who have roots in the Midwest or south, but are one or two generations removed from it. It’s a mix of different accents.
At the end of the day, we learn how to speak from the people and the culture we are surrounded in. I have had students who over the years lose their accent because they surround themselves with people with a more neutral accent, or they even gain a wildly different one from a different crowd (for example, elements of a Hispanic accent). I also have had students who get a much thicker “Southern” accent, those students tend be those who rodeo or show livestock competitively. Is it really fake if you’re constantly surrounded by it, learn to socialize in it, grow up in it, and it feels more natural to you?
I am a non white American with no roots in the South or Midwest but I grew up in a very rural and mountainous part of California. I used to speak with what many people would call a “redneck” accent. It’s how the people around me talked and so I learned it. I had no idea it was odd until I went away to college. Over many years, my accent went away as I got adjusted to speaking more articulately in a classroom setting. However, when I get angry or drunk (not at the same time), my accent starts to leak back out. Is that fake of me? I don’t think so.
September 6, 2022 @ 4:01 am
Pretty solid. No complaints.
September 6, 2022 @ 6:08 am
Pardi, for me personally, has never quite caught my interest. At first he was just another radio country guy. When people started saying he was an example of mainstream artists who are good, I gave his stuff a listen and found some songs I liked, but something about his nasal singing has kept me from really being interested. I can appreciate his attempt to return country radio back to something at least resembling the traditional sounds of the genre though.
I’ll give the album another shot, but it just may be my personal taste more than his music that keeps me from really becoming a fan.
September 6, 2022 @ 8:45 am
As an aside, Pardi co-produced half of Dillon Carmichael’s 2021 sophomore album Son of A. Can’t recall SCM covering that bit of trivia, that album, nor much about Dillon Carmichael himself at all since about 2018 around the time his Dave Cobb-produced debut Hell On An Angel was released.
Son of A was a decent album to my ears, with Carmichael having a good voice and fairly traditional arrangements/instrumentation. Not sure why Carmichael’s still so anonymous. Figured he would’ve had more success by now. To my ears he’s well within that quasi-commercial/traditional wheelhouse currently occupied by guys like Combs and Pardi. Curious as to why.
September 6, 2022 @ 9:26 am
I’m one of the few on here that loved Son Of A……great album and a title track that brings me to tears every time I hear it. Everybody dropped the ball on it. Not fair to this guy. Saw him on Hell On An Angel tour but he hasn’t been here since. Jon should take him out for some shows!!
September 6, 2022 @ 6:43 pm
JMFC can you people not tell that he sounds exactly like the Florida Georgia line dick? Pardi is good at one thing and that’s fooling fools
September 6, 2022 @ 7:50 pm
Experiment.
Listen to the first song of Tyler Hubbard’s new EP. Then listen to first song of Pardi’s new album.
Since Hubbards vocals are layered a thousand different ways from Sunday, which Hubbard does Pardi sound like?
September 7, 2022 @ 3:28 pm
T Hubbs is twangy Christian pop generic music.
Pardi is twangy honkytonk, Bakersfield drenched in steel and fiddle
November 1, 2022 @ 12:04 am
Are you deaf. If not, you are truly full of shit. Pardi comes nothing close to the overproduced pop garbage that is Florida-Georgia Line. Pardi is legit.
September 9, 2022 @ 7:56 pm
I was born and raised in Nashville and related to someone who was married to a legend in country music. Pardi’s accent is put on. There is no way anyone from California can sound like Morgan Wallace. When Gabby Barrett started she tried doing the same thing fake an accent. People complained about it and last performance she stopped.
September 11, 2022 @ 11:24 am
I don’t think Pardi has an accent…
His voice is just naturally nasally and rahsby.
The boy has allergies constantly. He sleeps with a nasal passage mask.