Music City Joke offers Leaphart’s strongest batch of songs to date: wry, rugged, and recharged, he’s singing songs that conjure up memories of front porches, honky tonks, heartbreaks, and dive bars. And here it is: the song, the album.and the punchline.” I peeled the ‘kick me’ sign off my back and got down to focusing on my own songwriting like never before–writing late at night and performing at writers’ rounds to see what stuck and what didn’t. “I moved here with the idea of writing some of those big hits you hear on country radio it wasn't too long before I realized there's a lot more that goes into writing a smash hit than just great songwriting, and I wasn't chuckling at Nashville anymore. “I’m a journeyman musician who spent a decade on the Southeastern bar band scene before settling in Nashville,” Leaphart explains.
The 10-song collection vacillates between high-energy tales that would be at home on any dancehall stage to wry examinations of the human condition - though Leaphart’s detailed writing style equally weaves throughout the more rollicking tracks on the album just the same. “If there is an overall arc that links these songs, it’s that I am trying to connect in a way that I never have before,” singer-songwriter Mac Leaphart says of Music City Joke, out today.
