LUCIE TIGER

                                                                "Home Is Where The Heart Is"

                                                                2120 Music

Australia’s Lucie Tiger has proven to not only be a unique artist that gingerly walks her aura stylistically along the line with today’s country music landscape, but she’s also one of the most endearing emerging talents on the country music circuit today.

Her song releases have garnered massive amounts of attention over the past two years, awarding her with the status of being the only independent Australian artist to see her past four singles each land on the renowned MusicRow CountryBreakout Chart and the CountryTown Top 40.

With a pending move to the music mecca of Muscle Shoals, AL now on the near horizon for the songstress, Tiger kicks off her 2023 by opening her road journal on “Home Is Where The Heart Is.” 

The mid-tempo, folksy drive of the rhythm laces together with a fusion of traditional flare and modern kissed charm as she metaphorically shows us her road trip Polaroids, singing lines in the chorus:

“I aint’ seen nothin’ grander than that canyon

There ain’t nothin’ out there wilder than the west

I’ve seen the Hoover Dam up close

I’ve seen sequoia trees up North”

Digging deeper past that picturesque surface, though, we see Tiger fully embracing the small-town spirit in this ode to her soon to be adopted home in the South as she talks about strangers becoming friends and a warm smile getting you most anywhere if you mean it, making the strike of the hook that much richer when she declares:

“Cause home is where the heart is

And my heart…my heart’s in the South”

There’s a happiness that pulls from an excited carefree place within her voice that radiates a purely unbridled giddiness about her pending move stateside, which absolutely works to further enhance the looking forward feel of the lyric and give a healthy amount of transparency to the song.

By expertly using the home is where the heart is sentiment, Tiger lifts a familiar phrase right off the hook needled art that hung in your grandma’s house when you were a kid to wrap an unmistakable down-home nostalgia into the song, warming the listener’s hearts as they reminisce on their childhood while becoming increasingly excited for Lucie and the next bold steps she’s making on her musical journey.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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