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Sounds Like Life by Darryl Worley

Sounds Like Life

Release Date: 6/9/2009

Recording Date: 6/2009

Tracks: 11

Label: Stroudavarious Records

Type: CD

Guest Artists:
Whisperin' Bill Anderson, Ira Dean, Steve Harwell, John Cowan, John Anderson, Jamey Johnson, John Anderson, Mel Tillis
Genre/Styles:
Contemporary Country

Album Tracks (11)

Song Title
Length
1.
Honkytonk Life
03:35
2.
Best of Both Worlds
03:53
3.
Slow Dancin' with a Memory
03:43
4.
Sounds Like Life to Me
03:44
5.
Doin' What's Right
03:26
6.
Tequila Dance
03:00
7.
Everyday Love
03:11
8.
Nothing But Money
03:53
9.
Don't Show Up (If You Can't Get Down)
06:09
10.
Messed Up in Memphis
03:51
11.
You Never Know
03:20

What the Critics Say

Sounds Like Life, Darryl Worley's sixth album, is his first for Stroudavarious Records, the label founded by James Stroud, the man who signed Darryl to his first record contract. In that sense, it's a bit tempting to see the album as a bit of a back to basics move, or at least an opportunity to hit the reset button on a career that never quite seemed to deliver upon the commercial promise of his huge 2003 hit "Have You Forgotten," but Sounds Like Life is really just a continuation of the work Worley started on 2006's Here and Now, the album where he attempted to reinvent himself as a brawny country-rocker. Sounds Like Life has its fair share of party songs -- including the rather riotous "Don't Show Up (If You Can't Get Down)," a sports bar anthem featuring improbable cameos from Bill Anderson, John Anderson, and Smash Mouth -- but the record has a sentimental streak a mile wide, with Worley "slow dancin' with a memory as he sips a tequila on ice," realizing that you never know what's around the corner and that just sounds like life to him. Such slow, soft sounds fit Darryl better than the blustering boasts that sometimes weighed down Here and Now, and even if they're cluttered with clichés, they're executed well, emphasizing Worley's low-key charms, something that often got glossed over on his buffed-up, highly polished major-label albums. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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