Gloriana photo courtesy of Emblem Music Group. Photo credit: Kristin Barlowe.
By Bob Doerschuk
© 2009 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc.
Established through club gigs in North Carolina as a duo, brothers Mike and Tom Gossin moved to Nashville in 2007 and soon after hooked up with Rachel Reinert. Working now as a trio, they connected with Cheyenne Kimball, a member of the audience during one of their gigs at Nashville club 3rd & Lindsley; instrumentally as well as vocally, she proved the last ingredient in the sound of Gloriana.
They rehearsed for six months before sending a demo to Emblem Music Group. Matt Serletic, founder of the new record label, responded immediately, welcomed them to the roster and got to work lining up material for their debut album. With Stephanie Bentley and Josh Kear, he co-wrote their first single, “Wild at Heart.” Rock-solid chords are their vocal trademark; on this track, they sing in a single, high-impact sound, roaming over a restless rhythm bed and climbing between verse and chorus to a peak of exuberant intensity.
Produced by Serletic, Gloriana overflows with an upbeat, attractive energy. Much of it stems from the material, from the electrifying opener “How Far Do You Wanna Go?” to the group’s one co-write, with Kyle Cook, on “Time to Let Me Go,” set over a relaxed train-track beat and sweetened by fiddle and steel. A lot owes to the positive qualities of the group’s main influences, which range from Ryan Adams to Fleetwood Mac and Keith Urban . But ultimately it’s the performance that distinguishes this foursome — a union of voices so confident and strong that it seems guaranteed to succeed.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS Q&A
SONG YOU WISH YOU’D WRITTEN
(REINERT) “‘Beautiful,’ by Christina Aguilera.”
(TOM GOSSIN) “’God Only Knows,’ by the Beach Boys.”
CD IN YOUR STEREO
(MIKE GOSSIN) “The Beatles — every album they did.”
DREAM DUET PARTNER
(KIMBALL) “Jason Michael Carroll.”
SOMETHING WE’D NEVER GUESS ABOUT YOU
(TOM GOSSIN) “I can cut hair. I went to hair school.”
FAVORITE FOOD ON THE ROAD
(EVERYONE) “Mexican!”
SONG YOU’D SECRETLY LIKE TO COVER
(TOM GOSSIN) “’Blue Ridge Mountains,’ by Fleet Foxes.”
PET PEEVE
(REINERT) “When people sing along to a song but don’t really know the lyrics so they kind of mumble them.”
ACTOR TO PORTRAY YOU IN MOVIE
(TOM GOSSIN) “Jon Stamos.”
WHAT YOU’D BE DOING IF YOU WEREN’T IN MUSIC
(MIKE GOSSIN) “Air Force pilot.”
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