Everyone that reads this blog should know that I’m a big Jeff Caudill fan and if you don’t then you haven’t been paying attention and I need to ask, “What are you even doing here?” How’s that for disclosure? Anyhow, last year Jeff released the full-length Try To Be Here and has “officially” followed that up (now) with this acoustic EP, Had To Be There. The EP features an acoustic version of “My Star” (originally on Gameface’s stellar 1999 album Every Last Time) that’s got some neato mandolin added, what Jeff called a “back porch” version of “Remember The Time,” and his Floormodel tune “The Reason Why I Still Live Here” done in a way that sounds more fitting for Jeff. “Song For a Princess” is about Jeff’s daughter and a song that (as a father to two girls) makes me smile more than a little and “Let Go” is a better-than-fantastic cover of that Frou Frou song from the movie Garden State. It’s truly amazing just how great a singer, performer, and songwriter Jeff Caudill is. He makes everything sound like gold. Buy his records.
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