Taste Test: Francine Honey vows she’s gonna ‘Stay’ this time
The Canadian singer-songwriter borrows a glossy Patsy Cline edge for her new song.
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As Screamin’ Jay Hawkins once wrote in his bedazzling landmark 1956 tune, “I put a spell on you / Because you’re mine.” His weighted words cut right to the heart of love’s bewitching tendencies. It’ll leave you breathless, pull you to your knees and stupefy the senses if you’re not too careful. Drawing upon a similar well of uncontaminated emotion, caramel-voiced Canadian country singer and songwriter Francine Honey magnificently sketches a portrait of the kind of love that’s tangled right around her veins. Her song “Stay,” which could very well have been recorded by Patsy Cline, taps into the shimmering magic of the Nashville Sound, a golden waltz number that’ll leave you in a daze. Honey’s voice twirls across the ballroom dance floor, and even the electric guitar seems to be caught up in the rush of it all. “Thunder may shake us / Winds kick up dust / Make our whole world spin,” she sings, drawing you further into the warmth radiating from her being. It’s classically stamped with time from a bygone era, and that in now way deflates Honey’s rich and enthralling vocal performance.
“Stay” placed seventh in the 2018 International Songwriting Competition (out of 19,000 entries).
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