Best Off-the-Row Country Act
The Nashville Scene 2008

The Wrights
Hardworking husband-and-wife duo Adam and Shannon Wright keep bucking
convention with two album releases within a year, both wholly different from
each other, and both wholly different than anything else currently going on
in Nashville or country music. This year's covers album, In the Summertime,
strips favorite songs down to their emotional core, focusing on the tenderly
evocative interplay of their voices and softly strummed instruments. Shannon
owns one of modern music's most subtly vibrant and emotionally expressive
voices, stridently avoiding the over-singing that characterizes so much
modern music. Ultimately, it's their well-tuned tastes in songs and
arrangements that sets them apart, and it's the feeling they leave lingering
in the air as a song finishes that keeps listeners coming back for more.

-Michael McCall