Vincent Mason

One Liner:  Another newcomer making country with rock edges

Wikipedia Genre:  Country

Home: Roswell, GA

Sunday.

Thoughts:  Lol.  I saw a Wikipedia page for his name and was like "oh wow, didn't expect this dude to have a Wikipedia."  That is because he doesn't.  But instead, he shares his name with one of the three dudes from De La Soul - Vincent Mason Jr., a/k/a Maseo, Pasemaster Mase, and Plug Three.  His laugh was the humongous laugh at the start of the Gorillaz song "Feel Good Inc."

Anyway, not that dude.  He claims his influences are Parker McCollum and John Mayer.  But the most popular song makes me think of Chris Martin from Coldplay trying to make a country song.  "Hell is a Dance Floor" currently has 37.9 million streams.

You hear that?  The guitar strums at the start sound like "Yellow," and then his voice with a touch of whisper is some Rush of Blood to the Head-era Martin.  Good tune though.  Overall, I think this guy is solid.  Not the best or most powerful voice around, but it's good and emotive.  I hate how hard it is to find simple biographical information about the young crop of artists now.  I've read three things, and they all pretty much say the same few dumb facts.  He grabbed a guitar in college and seized his potential.  He toured with some people.  Blah blah blah.

Found one though.  He played basketball and football in high school, but would just sing a bit as he went around doing whatever he was doing.  He didn't think anything of that, until he went to Ole Miss and started messing around in his spare time with lyrics and his guitar.  When the pandemic shut down college, he went home and really dug in to the music thing, drawing his inspiration from the pop sensibility of John Mayer and the country twang of McCollum.  When it was time to go back to school, he told his parents that he was interested in Nashville.  They backed him, and he transferred to Lipscomb University.  Now he's got a big hit!

After that one above, his biggest streamer is "A Little Too Good," which was apparently an assignment in his songwriting class that worked out!  5.9 million streams.

Nice little basic strummer.  With John Mayer as the stated inspiration, I can hear it in there.  The pensive love tune that hops up into a bop after a bit.  Too bad he's going to get the first slot on Sunday morning, but still, worth checking out for me.