NOAH HICKS - Nights Memories Stories - Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment
After setting the pace of his current chapter with back-to-back collaborations, “Second Time Around” with Shaylen and “Dirt Road Dirt” with Justin Moore, country riser Noah Hicks now stands strongly on his own in full embrace of his small-town, country boy roots on his latest offering.
“Nights Memories Stories” is available now on all digital and streaming platforms.
Embedded in the philosophy of singing what you know and knowing what you sing, co-written by Thomas Archer, Jacob Rice, Cole Taylor and Michael Tyler, the song might as well have been written by Hicks himself.
“I didn't write ‘Nights Memories Stories,’ but it feels just like my own life; it perfectly captures the nights that made me who I am, the memories I'll never forget and the stories you hear in all of my songs,” shares Hicks. “I can’t tell you how many nights I've had where we hang around, re-telling old stories and making memories—memories that are sure to be shared the next time around.”
Grabbing hold of the familiarity of a nostalgic roundtable, drink induced discussion between lifelong friends, Hicks takes us straight into the place where the tales of years gone by get a little taller with each retelling, growing their lure into the legend they’ve become today.
Weaving situations into each of the verses that tie together story layer upon story layer while no doubt connecting with those matted in the scrapbook of the listener, the bass he caught gets bigger, the buck he nabbed gets further away, they ran from the cop’s instead of pulling right over, and its easy to look back laughing now on the girl who broke his heart back when.
With its tempo grafted modern country drive slamming into its anthem swayed chorus, he raises one up to the good times as he cleverly bends into the spirit of Anywhere USA, all the backwoods, dirt road towns having these types of friend groups who are always Friday night reminiscing.
“Turning nights into memories
Memories into stories
One beer’s truth is another beer’s lie
Turning nights into memories
Memories into stories
Living that long week, long neck life
Any given town, I can see it right now
Country boys and girls circled round a step side
Turning nights into memories
Memories into stories
Story of a small-town Saturday night”
With a catalog of country boy anthems that already includes “Dirt On It,” “I Can Tell You’re Small Town,” and the aforementioned “Dirt Roads Dirt,” Noah Hicks adds another mark to his resume with “Nights Memories Stories” as he continues to peel back the authenticity of the signature characteristics that define who he is as an artist.
(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis/Artwork c/o Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment)