Jessie Murph drops a new pop-country album
If you’re looking for a great pop-country album to listen to, you’ve struck gold with Jessie Murph’s, “That Ain’t No Man That’s The Devil.” This stellar 12 song, 37 minute album shows off Murph’s versatility. The difference in just the first three songs, shows the ride you will go on throughout.
In the first song called “Gotta Hold” it is an up tempo beat, with a great chorus and bridge. “I keep dance, dance, dancing, oh the devil gotta hold.” The raspiness in her voice goes perfectly with the beat. The next song is “Dirty” featuring Teddy Swims. The entire pace of this song is vastly different from the intro “Gotta Hold.” It's much slower, and follows the traditional country sound more. Murph and Swims are performing an average relationship fight.
Murph wakes up and gets upset thinking Swims is cheating and his verse is about the other side of that situation and how Murph was overreacting. The transition from Murph’s to Swims verse was seamless.
The third song “Son of a B****,” is a totally different sound as well. In this song Murph brings a much more rap inspired cadence. Contrary to “Dirty” where Murph was assuming the cheating, this time there is no assumption. As Murph said “I know what’s up and what went down up in room 432.”
She was very consistent in her approach on the album with adding a guitar to most of the songs. Murph has four features on this project. Pop/R’n’B artist Teddy Swims on “Dirty,” country star Jelly Roll on “Wild Ones,” Koe Wetzel on “High Road,” and Bailey Zimmerman on “Someone in this room.”
Murph also talks about her struggles with drug usage at points of the album. Which has been a topic in some of her past music. Murph released a single in September of 2021 called “Sobriety.” That talks about the battle with sobriety. In “Love Lies,” she says “cocaine down to the gram, I’d love to take that, mmm but I can’t.”
This is the perfect blend of Murph’s different styles. My favorite track on the project is the intro “Gotta Hold.” When the song comes on before singing Murph starts with a tune saying “ooh, ooh, ooh.” Then the instrumental takes over. Murph’s voice really shined in the chorus and mashed very well.