“THAT’S THE THING ABOUT ‘MR. SATURDAY NIGHT,’
IT’S ALL HAPPY… UNTIL YOU GET TO THE HOOK.”
– JON PARDI
MR. SATURDAY NIGHT MARKS THE FOURTH ALBUM FROM THE MULTI-PLATINUM-CERTIFIED HARDCORE, WEST COAST/LONE STAR COUNTRY PHENOMENON JON PARDI. WITH A PAIR OF #1 COUNTRY ALBUM DEBUTS – THE COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION AND ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR NOMINATED HEARTACHE MEDICATION AND HIS SOPHOMORE CALIFORNIA SUNRISE, CONTAINING THE CMA SONG AND SINGLE OF THE YEAR NOMINATED “DIRT ON MY BOOTS” – PARDI HAS REFINED AND DEFINED A COUNTRY SOUND THAT’S LONG ON PUNCH, POWER AND THE KIND OF HONKYTONK THAT GETS PEOPLE DRINKING, DANCING AND DROWNING THEIR HEARTACHES.
THOSE HEARTACHES DRIVE MR. SATURDAY NIGHT, A DEEP DIVE INTO GOOD-TIMING TO GET OVER A BREAK-UP, BUST UP OR ANY OTHER BIT OF RANCID LUCK. PARDI EMBRACES WESTERN SWING, BREEZY CALIFORNIA MIDTEMPOS, BAR-ROOM SHUFFLES, AN EROTIC SLOW BURN – OR TWO, BAKERSFIELD HELL-RAISERS AND A COUPLE BALLADS TO SHOW A MORE MATURE SIDE OF THE GUY WHO’S BEEN CHAMPIONING ALL THE STYLES OF JUKE JOINT MUSIC SINCE EARNING ACM NEW MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR (2016) AND CMA BEST NEW ARTIST (2017) TITLES. PARDI HAS DISTILLED HIS ESSENCE FOR AN ALBUM INCLUDING SONGS NAMED “NEON LIGHT SPEED,” “YOUR HEART OR MINE,” “LAST NIGHT LONELY,” “FILL ’ER UP,” “SANTA CRUZ,” “REVERSE COWGIRL” AND “LONGNECK WAY TO GO” WITH MIDLAND.
THREE YEARS IN THE MAKING, PARDI’S FOCUS REMAINS CONVEYING THE STRONGEST EMOTIONS, WHILE PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF WHAT GOOD TIME SONGS CAN DO AND STAYING TRUE TO THE MAN ACCLAIMED BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES, COWBOYS & INDIANS, NPR, VARIETY AND ROLLING STONE’S SENSE OF WHAT COUNTRY IS. ENLISTING TWO-TIME CMA INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR FIDDLER JENEE FLEENOR AND MULTIPLE CMA, ACM AND GRAMMY-WINNING GUITARIST BRENT MASON WHO DEFINED ’90S ELECTRIC GUITAR, THERE’S PLENTY OF FIDDLE, STEEL AND SLIDE GUITAR. AS IMPORTANTLY, HE MAKES WHAT HURTS SO BAD SO MUCH FUN – AND IN A WORLD GONE MAD, THAT’S A PRETTY GOOD CARD TO HAVE UP YOUR SLEEVE.
LOOK FOR JON OUT ON THE ROAD, CURRENTLY ON HIS AIN’T ALWAYS THE COWBOY TOUR THROUGH OCTOBER. HE’S TAKING 2X ACM WINNER LAINEY WILSON AND HAILEY WHITTERS ALONG FOR THE RIDE.
