THe Dryes
Following a steady year of growth, the Nashville-based husband-wife Country duo The Dryes are prepping the release of their first single for 2020. The fun, upbeat and honky-tonk-laced “Take You Dancin’” will come out on January 31.
The Nashville-based husband-wife country duo of Katelyn and Derek Drye continued their fast-paced growth in 2019 following a powerful launch that caught praise from The Boot and Cowboys & Indians. Jon Freeman of Rolling Stone Country raved about their debut single saying: “Husband-wife duo the Dryes sing their origin story in the slinky ‘Amen,’ mingling potent sexuality with the salvation of love. ‘I met him singing in the church choir, lit up my heart like that holy fire,’ sings Katelyn Drye over a scuzzy guitar riff that recalls Norman Greenbaum's classic ‘Spirit in the Sky’ and a strutting beat that could make the most conservative church lady clutch her pearls. Husband Derek adds harmonies in the chorus breakdown, a down-low gospel chant that asks the rhetorical question: ‘Can I get an amen?’ With a groove this tough, absolutely.”
The couples 2018 single, “War,” written based upon Derek Dryes’ personal dealings with his mother’s suicide when he was a baby sparked an incredibly touching and sincere music video which was spotlighted by CMT. The song catapulted on Spotify and respective official playlists and now logging over two million streams.
Media Praise
“Husband-wife duo the Dryes sing their origin story in the slinky ‘Amen,’ mingling potent sexuality with the salvation of love. ‘I met him singing in the church choir, lit up my heart like that holy fire,’ sings Katelyn Drye over a scuzzy guitar riff that recalls Norman Greenbaum’s classic ‘Spirit in the Sky’ and a strutting beat that could make the most conservative church lady clutch her pearls. Husband Derek adds harmonies in the chorus breakdown, a down-low gospel chant that asks the rhetorical question: ‘Can I get an amen?’ With a groove this tough, absolutely.”
“Husband and wife duo The Dryes kick things up a notch in its infectious new single ‘Take You Dancin’’…the feel-good tune has Derek and Katelyn Drye sharing harmonies on the foot-stomping number.”
“‘Discount Daydreams’ is a mid-tempo, guitar-driven love song — think John Mayer meets country’s musical-couple-in-love harmonies.”