CLIFF DORSEY - Same Diffie - Black Sheep Label

Navigating the country music landscape as an independent artist takes ingenuity, precision, and success stories from song to song that continuously shines the spotlight on your consistent growth while adding distinct flavors to your unique characteristics.

Backed by the steady trajectory of “Your Guess,” “Stop This Train,” and his current radio single, “When I Think Aldean,” neo-traditionalist Cliff Dorsey has everyone on high alert with an attractive sound that straddles the edge of the current era, but masterfully keeps his feet firmly planted on a 90’s country vibe.

Today, the rising star releases his anticipated next song, paying heartfelt tribute to a country music legend and the timelessness of the music that defined an era.

Co-written by Dorsey, Emily Brooke, and Madison Wolfe, and produced by Janelle Arthur, “Same Diffie” is available on all digital and streaming platforms.

“This one’s for anyone who’s ever turned up the radio and felt like a song knew exactly what they were going through,” says Dorsey. “Same Diffie is a tribute to how country music can lift you up.”

Country music is often the go-to genre for soothing a broken heart, but delivering in prayer like fashion, Dorsey doesn’t wait for country music to come and help soothe his hurting soul, but he instead cries out to the icon he most often calls on for comfort…Joe Diffie!

“If you could hear me Joe,” he pleads quizzingly as he seeks solace for his aching country boy heart, wondering if she and him would still fall in love if they had met today, though confessing how he let her walk out the door and is now having to turn to a CD collection of old friends and a long drive to try and clear his head and mend his heart.

Cleverly wrapping the titles of Diffie’s most famous songs in each line of the chorus, he affectionately outlines his praise for the legend while lamenting on what he would do differently if only he could go back and do it all again.

“If Billy Bob still loves Charlene

That means there’s still hope for me

When the grass ain’t John Deere Greene

I put your records on repeat

At heart I’m a pickup man

I’d pick her up all over again

If we could go back and do things differently

Would it be the same Diffie?”

Coming off a busy CRS season that further placed Dorsey’s name on the hearts and minds of the radio tastemakers who are playing a vital radio role in helping catapult his career, “Same Diffie” hits a tremendous stride that is both nostalgic and delivers a one-two punch of the signature feels that have put Cliff Dorsey’s name high up on the list as one to watch.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)