2025 CATCH UP SINGLE REVIEW: KENDRA REMEDIOS - DARLIN'

Every so often the social media alerts you to various people you might like and one name it belatedly brought to our attention was Texas born, Nashville based Kendra Remedios. As it was such a striking name, a few clicks led to her rather excellent single "Darlin'" which slipped past us in February 2025. It's only just over two and a half minutes in duration but it does not waste a single second.

"Don't Darlin' me Darlin'

Smooth talking son of a gun

You're always up to something

You ain't fooling no-one"

Kendra delivers over just an electric guitar which is almost muted giving the real attention to Kendra's bluesy smoky voice.

This is Kendra fighting off the attentions of someone who has let her down repeatedly before and this is her, in the immortal words of The Who saying she "Won't get fooled again!"

"Trying to get that late night, come on over

I told myself that I was done

Don't Darlin' me Darlin' - You ain't fooling no-one"

The band kick in there's some slow percussion , blues guitar and a pedal steel

"If I had a dollar for every time you said you'd be mine

I'd be so rich, if I didn't buy into your lies"

The chorus is delivered with ever more gusto with the more volume that the backing band provides.

The cover picture shows Kendra laying on a bed, on the phone playing out the song, her hair marvelously splayed out. Lyrically it's barely a fragment of a song yet it says so much and is incredibly effective conveying all we need to know. Kendra's voice is one you immediately want to hear more of, and when you find out that she is a dental hygienist by day it only makes her seem all the more mysterious.

The word So before rich is massively extended and sees Kendra's voice soar