SINGLE REVIEW: STEPHANIE RYANN - LUCKY PENNY

The latest single from Stephanie Ryann "Lucky Penny" finds her extending her run of superior singles that really deserve widespread acclaim. Her bsck catalogue is a veritable mine, full of gems and this latest tune is a welcome addition.

Openng to an acoustic guitar and steady beat "Lucky Penny" co written with Jeniffer Schott, cleverly plays with ideas of gambling and relationships to make a well worked single.

The opening verse is very much one side of the coin, the relationship where one half is not valued.

"I've been a winner and a loser's coin toss

Just some pocket change he didn't want

Thrown out forgotten in the dirt"

Stephanie has just the right amount of disdain in her delivery, justifiably aggrieved, with the second verse making things even clearer

"He was a cheap and wreckless kind of gambler

Pawned a heart like it didn't matter

That man never saw my worth"

The chorus is altogether different with Stephanie's whole demeanour and outlook changing with a wishful look into the future

"I'm the glimmer in a sidewalk crack - shining bright

I'm alone and whisper calling for the right one to hold me tight

I'll wait here every night and day, I don't care how many

Some day I'll be sonebody's Lucky Penny"

The back end of the chorus sees the arrival of a splendid pedal steel whose cotributions throughout could easily steal the show but for the quality in Stephanie's performance.

"I'll catch his eye as he walks by me

Some might call it perfect timing

Just takes the right one to see me,

He's going to see me"

With a sound that steadily building up around her, Stephanie uses the bridge to ponder on the hit and miss nature of the chances of finding that right partner

"Ooo ooh holding out for that kind of love

Ooo ooh it's heads or tails he'll pick me up"

April and May will be seeing Stephanie Ryann busily playing dates in Nashville and Florida, there has never been a better time to see her.