LOGAN CROSBY

                                                              "If You Ask Me" 

                                                              Independent Release

As the runner up on ABC’s Claim to Fame, Logan Crosby attracted an audience with his classic country tilted sound that allowed the right amount of room for his signature soulful vocal to be the centerpiece.

That sound that we had come to know was prevalent on his debut single release, “If Jesus Was A Cowboy,” but his newest release sees him shifting ever so slightly into a more modern era vibe while skillfully retaining all his unique touches.

“If You Ask Me,” co-written by Crosby and Nate Kenyon, weaves us through a story type of lyric that is synonymous with the country music tradition, while masterfully capturing the anxiety riddled emotions that a man experiences when asking his girlfriend’s father for her hand in marriage.  

Setting the scene in the opening verse, Crosby takes us straight into the setting as he sings about her dad (a farmer) making rounds on his tractor, while he (Crosby) is dressed in his Sunday best on a Thursday afternoon waiting nervously for him to finish out in the pasture as he fights the butterflies he’s feeling, eventually approaching her dad with a quiver in his voice.

Before he could even speak, though, her dad interjects as Crosby pushes into the chorus that sings us through her dad’s words to him:

“If you ask me

There ain’t a man alive that’s good enough for my daughter

If you ask me

If I’ll ever be ready to let her go, no I’m not gonna

But she told me you’re the kind of man

That’ll love her right her whole life and never leave

So, if my blessings what you need

She made me promise I’d say yes if you ask me”

We get to see a few different sides of who her dad is as a person as the song progresses, from the older generation passing advice onto the younger when he explains that a ring means forever, to his humorous side in the bridge when he responds to “I can’t wait to marry her” with “Well, she aint’ said yes yet!”

With a neo-traditional instrumental accompaniment that perfectly accents the anxiety and awkwardness of the moment, Crosby delivers a very well-written song all-around that not only encompasses the morals and values of what true respect looks like, but he also moves into a territory that recalls the era when songs like “Stealing Cinderella” and “I Loved Her First” were smash hits at radio, resonating in quite the same way with “If You Ask Me.”

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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