The country music duo Steel Magnolia bursted onto the scene last year after winning the second season of CMT's "Can You Duet?" talent competition, and the country newcomers now have returned with a new follow up single and music video for "Just by Being You (Halo and Wings)" on CMT's Top 20 Countdown. Will the single be able to match the success of their smash debut single, "Keep on Lovin' You," the highest charting debut single from a male-female Country duet act in the 66-year history of the Billboard Top Country Songs Chart.The duo consists of Meghan Linsey and her boyfriend, Joshua Scott Jones, delivers a ballad about loving someone just the way they are. Their new single is also the first from their upcoming debut full-length album, to be released later this year. The song is a simple love song, with the metaphor or angels, and about a couple wanting to get away from everything, and that's exactly what happened when it came time to film the music video, directed by Kristin Barlowe. The dramatic power ballad finds the duo, who have been dating for several years, each pledging to accept the other. The couple trades couplets and their sound blends together in harmony on the chorus, producing a Tim McGraw and Faith Evans affect that has proven successful time and again.
Steel Magnolia are old-time country: folk country and ballad country. The Louisiana natives, in their young 20s, are perhaps too young to know exactly where their roots sound comes from, but they deliver a rhythm and melody sound akin to their 30-something contemporaries in Little Big Town. A more mature version of Gloriana even, Steel Magnolia are among the rising stars in the young country game. Since the forming of the dynamic, singing, songwriting duo in 2006, record labels and publishers are starting to catch wind and are asking a lot of questions. The sound is soulful, the songs undeniable, and the music is taking people by storm.
With a very 21st century name, Steel Magnolia might reflect the modern and natural sound of their voices, or the obvious steel guitars present in their music, but it also represents a new page in 2010's country music scene. Steel Magnolia ready to bloom in country music, and theiy will spend most of this summer supporting Brad Paisley as he tours across America on his H2O Tour.
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