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Kind of wild that in the same world where Morgan Wallen breaks Ticketmaster with his tour after releasing songs like Broadway Girls and Last Night, Zach Bryan does the same, to the same audience, with songs like Something in the Orange and Heading South. This self-titled album is a great listen front to back, with songs like East Side of Sorrow, talking about shipping off in the Navy and his Mothers Death, and I Remember Everything which is the mega-hit of the album – a truly very catchy little song, performed with legend Kacey Musgraves. I just love that an album like this is taking over the country charts - and even the general charts - while not ever really deviating from the “safe” zach bryan sound of just singer-songwriter over raw instrumentals.
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The most I’ve loved a pure radio banger in a long time. I can never listen just once. Jack Doyle was recently talking to me about how country music is cool because there’s usually a punchline to the lyrics. This song is a perfect example of that. Instead of writing a classic heartsick lyric like countless other songs, this takes the trope and turns it into something clever, concrete, simple, relatable, all setting you up for a punchline. It’s quite a different approach to writing than something abstract and open to interpretation, and it’s so skillful to me. Kind of blown away by lyrics like this. Nothing against the abstract, we all love that too, but writing stuff like this is hard.
Aug 17, 2023
I'm not a huge country guy but I have SOBBED to this song sometimes. This song brings me back to singing this with my friends in the car in college while we drove around the city.
Apr 29, 2024
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In college I went to the same Mexican place every day for a burrito, got the same coffee at the same Dunkin’ Donuts every morning
Years later im in a new area following the same philosophy, I eat a chicken bruschetta wrap at the same place every time I go out for lunch and still get the same coffee at the same local Dunkin’ Donuts every morning.
I frequent the same full service gas station, go to the same mechanic, Kevin, buy groceries from the same local mart, get my hair cut by the same barber, buy any and all hardware misc from the same little hardware store, Jeds.
When your order gets prepared the second you walk in, and you have a relationship with your daily’s, your life is in a better place.
Dec 14, 2023
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Had a septic company out today with a roadrunner from looney tunes and Mr clean in the logo
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