Female Friday: "Scrapyard" - Gal Friday

Like most of my new favorites found on the FM dial, it didn't take but half a song to fall in love with "Scrapyard" by sister trio Gal Friday, when I came across it on 99.9 KFAV. How ironically perfect a name, according to sarahscoop.com the sisters heard the term "girl Friday" on television and inspired the band name. After all, here at Country Music Medicine, Fridays are for the females.

Southern rock & gospel, bluegrass and country. Having been chosen to open for The Steel Drivers gives them more than enough face value music cred in my book. Their debut album, Smoke and Mirrors dropped at the end of October this year.

The truth is, as much as I despise certain individual members of The Dixie Chicks, no all-girl band has come close to reaching their level of fame and fortune. (Okay, so I am a fan of The Dixie Chicks music, but that's another story). Gal Friday is the first band I've found to stand a chance with the sound they have.

Women rarely get the opportunity to sing in such an up beat or dare I say "rocking" way. Even for a break up song such as "Scrapyard" we have come to expect that sound from Mariana and Carrie. It also appears to be the only kind of sound that music row will rank with their "big boys" of country music.

That all being said - Melissa York, Ashley Min & Lauren Wilson seemed to break into that market with "Scrapyard".

I thoroughly expect that this song will be discovered by major media markets, and eventually be over played on the radio and to gradually annoy me. I look forward to it.

Best of luck Gals.





                                            Gal Friday "Scrapyard"

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