NASHVILLE, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Webster PR) - October 20th Curb Records lit the fuse to ignite Bomshel's debut album release FIGHT LIKE A GIRL, a well-crafted collection of female-empowering themes and edgy undertones; not left without a tender touch.
Bomshel, comprised of Kristy O and Kelley Shepard, spent a lifetime and the last year and a half preparing for the release of Fight Like A Girl. This record is a product of countless hours around a kitchen table, fueled by gallons of coffee and taken from an immeasurable variety of lessons in life learned.
With a studio upstairs in their Nashville-based home, the two had a hand in virtually every aspect of this album start to finish; mixing, recording, co-writing on ten out of the eleven tracks. The exception being a rockin' countrified version of No Doubt's 'Just A Girl,' featuring a tantalizing yet familiar fiddle intro by Kristy O!
'Every song you hear it's going to be us,' says Kelley. 'You'll hear our fun side and our sad side. We have some really traditional country on there and some really poppy stuff.' Including Bomshel's current single '19 & Crazy,' co-written by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Josh Kear, offering an enchanting recollection of the final yet unforgettable phases of adolescence.
In writing songs for their record, Kelley and Kristy were looking to share stories-things they'd lived or seen someone else live through. 'It has to be something that we're really organically going through or a conversation that we've had with a fan or friend,' says Kristy.
Newsday was on the Bomshel trail early on stating, 'It looks like Kelley Shepard and Kristy O. may be set to break through, Bomshel is the Avril Lavigne of the South.'
Stephen Betts October 20th article on AOL's The Boot penned the headline 'Bomshel Explodes With a Double Dose of Girl Power.'
Country Weekly said, 'Bomshel's 'Fight Like A Girl' is powered by perfect-blend harmonies, infectious melodies and two absolutely remarkable voices. This is one crazy good album! '
Call it what you want, Bomshel's first single and title track, 'Fight Like A Girl' engaged country radio and forged a path for Kristy O and Kelley Shepard to blast through glass ceilings and re-define stereotypes placed upon women.
'We really wanted to gear it towards all women,' says Kelley of how they crafted 'Fight Like A Girl.' 'With our moms, sisters and grandmas�We've always really admired their persistence through the tough times. I think women have an amazing ability to endure. It's a positive thing to fight like a girl because girls are a lot stronger on the inside. We don't want to put one meaning or even one gender on this song. We all have moms, sisters and grandmas. We want people take it however they want to take it. Whether it is a little girl or a family struggling with something they really can't control.'
Roughstock.com gave an interesting insight and favorable forecast for Bomshel saying, 'Fight Like a Girl is seemingly an appropriate title, considering that almost any female not named Taylor Swift or Carrie Underwood doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of getting to the top of the charts - indeed, Bomshel's chart history proves that even getting into the Top 40 is quite a task for a female act anymore, especially something as rare as a female duo. Bomshel has the goods, and with any luck, they could be the act that breaks through the glass ceiling that has seemingly been built in country music of late.'
The eleven tracks on Fight Like A Girl hit a common thread on the raw emotion that comes with being a woman and the daring vulnerability of being yourself.
'When you buy a Bomshel record, you are going to be bringing home a piece of the two of us,' Kristy O says. 'All I can say is on this record I played as good as I could have possibly played. I sang as good as I could have possibly sung and Kelly sang as good as she could. It's a scary experience to now be putting it out there because it's definitely a piece of our soul.'
