"Shit Just Got Real"
from Shit Just Got Real by Cal King
(c) 2014 Cal King Music

Shit Just Got Real

"Texas (Wasn't All That We Needed)"
from Shit Just Got Real by Cal King
(c) 2014 Cal King Music

Texas (Wasn't All That We Needed)

"Car Trouble"
from Shit Just Got Real by Cal King
(c) 2014 Cal King Music

Car Trouble

"Busted"
from Shit Just Got Real by Cal King
(c) 2014 Cal King Music

Busted

Another mixtape for the country fans of Soundcloud and beyond! Tons of great music plus I debut the title track off of my new EP "Shit Just Got Real!"

CAL KING'S COUNTRY & WESTERN MIXTAPE #12

from the album "Too Much Is Never Enough" by AJ Hobbs
Produced by Ted Russell Kamp and AJ Hobbs
Release date: February 17, 2017

Too Much Is Never Enough Master v. 2

Too Much Is Never Enough

Life Without You

The Loser

from the album "Too Much Is Never Enough" by AJ Hobbs
Produced by Ted Russell Kamp and AJ Hobbs
Release date: February 17, 2017

Check out the new single from AJ HOBBS called “Daddy Loved The Lord.” From the full-length release Too Much Is Never Enough out February 17, 2017. 


About the song, in his own words:


“My wife has always told me to write my own story and for years I thought about how I could tell the story of my dad, the fall down drunk, who got religion after years of chaos, drinking and abuse in our house. So I did just that with this song. 


“I wanted to talk about themes that were personal to me; like going to church on Saturdays ‘cause daddy was a Seventh-Day Adventist; or being stuck in a sleepy desert town with no friends because we weren't allowed to play with kids that didn’t go to our church which meant many afternoons it was just me and my little brother at the tracks waiting for trains to come by and smash our pennies for fun. But I wanted to mix in some universal ideas too and let this be an anthem for anyone that got forced praying to a god they didn’t really understand or being a part of a broken family turned on its head by the church. 


“The hook for this song had been rumbling around my head for a couple years before I was finally able to sit down and finish it. To me, this was always going to have a Bakersfield country vibe, but to be completely honest, I was reading a lot of Kendrick Lamar lyrics when I was finally inspired to finish out the tune. To me he’s one of the great poets of this generation and has a cool perspective when it comes to coming of age and down-home themes. 


“I took the song to my producer Ted Russell Kamp and we worked on the arrangement a bit and then took the band down to Mark Rains’ Station House Studio to record it. I got Jim Doyle to play drums on it cause he really gets that classic country sound, Ted on bass and Jeremy Long from Sam Outlaw’s band on guitar. Jeremy asked if he could lay down some piano and that is when the song started to take on a whole different feel. It still had the Bakersfield backbone in the rhythm section but it turned into a country gospel and blues thing right away. Once I heard that, I got Kitten Kuroi from Englebert Humperdinck’s band to come in and lay down the background vocals. I love what this song turned into and I hope you do too. 


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