Red Hot Track Of The Week: Charlie Worsham

Song

Kiss Like You Dance

Artist

Charlie Worsham (feat. Kip Moore)

Charlie Worsham backstory

Can it really be a decade since Could It Be?

Charlie Worsham’s solo career might have hit a few bumps along the way but the Mississippi native’s about quality not quantity.

And if fans crave the long-awaited follow-up to 2017’s Beginning Of Things then don’t measure the man on record releases alone.

The former Old Crow Medicine Show player has emerged as a key member of Dierks Bentley’s touring band.

And 2021 EP Sugarcane served as a timely reminder of the 38-year-old’s enduring talent.

It might be 10 years since debut album Rubberband announced Worsham as one to watch.

But last year’s ACM Award for Acoustic Guitar Player of the Year evidenced a star still on the rise.

Kiss Like You Dance and previous single How I Learned To Pray are featured on new EP Compadres.

The five-track project features a handful of Worsham’s most decorated collaborators and fiercest champions: Kip Moore, Luke Combs, Elle King, Lainey Wilson and Bentley.

Produced by The Cadillac Three frontman Jaren Johnston, Compadres ushers in the next chapter in a compelling, decade-long country music tale.

In Charlie Worsham’s own words

“Kiss Like You Dance is irresistibly fun to play.

“It’s a fun singalong and it’s full of honkytonk guitar gold.

“I love playing it live and I’m especially excited that my buddy Kip is on this track.

“We’ve got a killer music video coming for y’all soon.”

The verdict on Kiss Like You Dance

Looking for a way to banish those Monday blues?

The wonderfully optimistic Charlie Worsham has you covered.

This latest taste of big-name collaboration project Compadres is a cut above.

Worsham and Kip Moore prove themselves a country music match made in heaven as they trade typically teasing vocals.

And the fast-paced, upbeat, flirtatious Kiss Like You Dance kicks ass.

But it’s not all about the voices — check out the hard rocking guitar solo built around a blinding riff as the pair go back to the 80s and peak party-starting Poison.

Kiss Like You Dance is Worsham at his lip-smacking, toe-tapping best.

And as collabs go it’s a case of the Moore the merrier.