He recently won the International Singer-Songwriter Award’s Entertainer of the Year. “The videographer was riding out the side of the Jeep and we were going pretty fast and I’m like, ‘Are you sure you’re alright?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah I’m fine and we’re getting the shot.’ Then he falls off and just face-plants, comes up, and is like ‘Go, go go !”Ĭharles has been singing and songwriting for a long time-writing since he was 14, he tells us. Things got very real while shooting a scene where Charles and friends drive a Jeep on the beach at Assateague. “We wanted to get that real life feel…We’re not setting up for 5 hours. We’re just like, ‘We’re in it, we’re doing it.’ And I think you feel that in the video because it’s all very natural.” The shots inside Oriole Park at Camden Yards were taken were from a real performance when he sang the National Anthem there earlier this summer. I was like, ‘Can I hire you, please.’”Ĭharles says the video was filmed with the intention of looking authentic. Joyce Fitchett, she is an eight- or nine-time derby-winning crab picker! She picked like five crabs in three minutes. He praises one of the state’s finest crab pickers. There’s so much tradition there,” Charles says. “I think for us Marylanders, it’s almost like this sacred body of water. The video shows sunset on the Ocean City Bayside, the Bay Bridge, Assateague Island, Annapolis, and of course the Bay. Why us Free State folks have so much pride Let me shed a little light so you can recognize/ Never heard of Assawoman or Susquehanna/ Got a Maryland tattoo with matching pajamas/ Never crossed the Bay Bridge with the windows down, salt air blowing all around/ If you’ve never seen an Atlantic sunrise then the sunset over Isle of Wight/ He spoke with Bay Bulletin about the inspiration for the song and filming the video-which he says he’d do all over again in a heartbeat.įrom Baltimore’s pro sports teams to the Eastern Shore’s pro crab pickers, his lyrics capture the essence of the Old Line State. And the Towson University graduate makes it no secret how much pride he has for his home state.Ĭharles just released a music video for one of his newest songs, “It’s a Maryland Thing, You Wouldn’t Understand.” And anyone who lives in Maryland would find it hard not to enjoy. But he still goes home to his birthplace of Worcester County.
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