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You never know what you’re going to get with a debut album. |
It’s a bold move to pursue a career or even hobby in music, and even more so if you’re living in Nashville. It’s a double-edged sword. You’ve got the community for it, but you’ve also got the over-saturation. Ultimately though, you say the hell with that, and you do it because you love it and are compelled to do it. |
Wasting no time to reel the listener in at the jump is his 2025 single, “If I’m Able.” With a warm accompaniment of horns, it immediately feels like a vintage 70s soul song. It grooves and moves effortlessly, but the fun twist is his more country-inspired vocals, creating a genre-bending performance. The chorus is catchy, the guitars shred, and you can almost taste the whiskey Lamparter sings about. |
Clocking in at track four is his April single, “Concrete Cowboy.” This number offers a more sultry vocal performance, and hits different than the opening track. It feels much more modern in its approach and production, though the horns do make a return here. “I swear I don’t want this life / It wants me,” he belts out with raw emotion. Again the instrumentation is top tier, propelling the song to towering heights. |
The funky mellow rock vibes continue throughout, and another track of note is “Underneath Me.” It has an upbeat pep to it, ripe for feeling good and squeezing your loved one tight. It harkens to a Matchbox 20 or insert another late 90s/early 2000s contemporary pop-rock act. It’s another sticky chorus number as he repeats, “I want you / When you’re underneath me.” |
Wrapping things up is “Wild Ones,” which changes pace from the electric guitar and horns, and swaps them for a fast-paced acoustic guitar rhythm and roots groove — think Mumford and Sons. It’s a more gentle and easy-on-the-ears melody, and the harmonies stand out, as he sings about releasing inhibitions and living in the moment. It’s a dynamite closer to a damn good debut album. |
Lamparter picked up a guitar at the age of eight. By 12, he was already performing on stage, and by 15, he had joined his first real band, Exit 81A, named after the highway exit that led straight out of his hometown, Christiana, Tennessee. |
A chance meeting in 2019 with a DJ turned into a DJ/guitar hybrid duo known as Simply Majestic, opening for other Nashville bands and playing festivals and events including Bonnaroo. In 2024, at a Christmas party, Lamparter crossed paths with producer Chris Silverio that set the next chapter in motion. They would go on to track 15 Seconds Of Fame at Doghouse Studio in Nashville. |
“It’s something really magical to be able to take a song in the direction it truly wants to go, and that is what we did here,” he states. “I didn’t want to restrict anything to a certain sound just because it was comfortable to me. We let these songs breathe themselves into life, and that ended up taking me on adventures and exploring uncharted waters to me as an artist.” |
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