The Country Rebel clothing brand has shared the exclusive new solo acoustic video for “Live With That,” by country / Americana artist Josh Merritt. The clip was filmed onstage at Lamasco Bar in Evansville, Ind.
Merritt has opened shows for everyone from Hank Williams Jr. and Charlie Daniels to Colt Ford, Corey Smith and Sonia Leigh. His new studio debut, Reynolds Station, is a countrified concept record, a set of autobiographical songs based on his tumultuous childhood in rural Kentucky. During this time, Merritt’s young mother & stepfather’s lives were unraveled by meth addiction. After several bleak years, Merritt and his brothers were taken away to be raised by their grandparents on a farm in the unincorporated community of Reynolds Station, a place of refuge in the wake of the storm.
Reynolds Station was produced by hit songwriter and recording artist Shannon Lawson, and engineered & mixed by Zac Kasik (who worked with Jamey Johnson on platinum-selling album That Lonesome Song). The record also features veteran session players such as bassist Robert Kerns (Sheryl Crow), drummer Shakey Fowles (Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker) and keyboard player Peter Keys (Lynyrd Skynyrd).
A break from the record’s more somber tunes, “Live With That” is a downhome party track, Merritt inhabiting the mindset of his drug-dealing family members during a hot streak where things are momentarily cool and the money is rolling in. Check it out via Country Rebel.
