Dean Strickland- Hitchhiking Guitarman Review

Artist: Dean Strickland
Title: Hitchhiking Guitarman
Website: http://www.deanstrickland.com
Style: Country
Label: Never Die Records
Rating: 8.75 out of 10
By C.W. Ross

 

Dean Strickland's first full length CD, Hitchhiking Guitarman is a collection of thirteen original songs that Dean has written from his experiences while hitchhiking from show to show in Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and California for over the past two years.

 

Over these 13 songs you'll get to know Dean pretty well. He sings about his life in the songs, of which, a big part of revolves around his faith.

 

Songs like, "I Believe the Lord Has Put Me Here to Sing to You" with lyrics that talk about an angel coming down  from heaven to Dean's mom to let her know that she'd be having a boy and to name him Dean. Along with that he was given the gift from God to sing to the people.

 

You'll also find cowboys sitting around the open fire resting from a long day playing the guitar and singing feel on several of the songs. I think that Dean is a man who would have fit right in if he'd been born and lived in an earlier time period when the west was still wild.

 

On the song, "Why Did Classic Country Music Have to Die?" Dean laments for the older times before Country music got intertwined with Pop and Rock music styles to make it more acceptable for mainstream radio stations to play.

 

Dean's music is clean, honest, crisp, heartfelt and pure country. Nothing fancy or over worked just a man and his guitar making music for the world to hear.

 

I really enjoyed my time spent listening to Dean's original style of Country music that's found on Hitchhiking Guitarman.