Fronted by singer/songwriter and guitarist Darren Hodson, The Southern Companion is the pseudonym for a collective of some of the UK’s most passionate and talented musicians in their genre. Listen to their beautifully soulful Few Too Many Hours, a mellow Americana offering from their third album “Shine A Little Light” which is released tomorrow ahead of their first UK headline tour during February and March 2019. It’s everything we’ve come to expect from the gifted storyteller. The album ebbs and flows from the lively to the darker side of Americana with authority. On the album, Darren states:
I’m really pleased with it, although it’s technically the 3rd Southern Companion record, it’s the 1st time I think we’ve really captured how we sound as a band. We did this one without any outside interference or influence as we didn’t have a label to appease, we just made the record we wanted to make, it’s self-produced, self-funded, self-released, the whole thing has been done “in house” so to speak.
Originally from Lymington, front-man Darren is the songwriter and driving force behind the band. An Americana obsessive…
“My love of Country music & more specifically Americana music just comes from a love of great songs. I grew up listening to everything from Tom Petty to The Black Crowes, The Allman Brothers to Jackson Browne. I then took some great advice and found out what stuff the bands & artists I loved had listened to and were influenced by. That opened me up to all the classic American genres, Blues, Rock n Roll, Country, Folk & Soul music. Americana is the blending of it all, blurring the genre lines, it’s no longer one thing or one style, it’s either just good music or it ain’t.”
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