Ella Langley is from Morven, Georgia, a town with a population under 600, and her music carries that origin in the way the best country writing does: not as a costume but as a starting point for something more complicated. She moved to Nashville and has been building a catalog that sits squarely in the new country mainstream while carrying enough genuine feeling to keep it from sounding like product. "Choosin' Texas" arrived as part of a run of singles that put her on the map as someone with both the voice and the pen to hold her own in a crowded genre. The song is about choosing the harder thing, the thing that costs you something, and it does not dress that up in too much metaphor. It is direct and specific, which is what good country writing is. Langley has been one of the more compelling new names in the format over the past couple of years. "Choosin' Texas" is a good reason to understand why.
Ella Langley