John Jenkins Delivers A Song With An Emotional Story
- BuzzSlayers
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John Jenkins returns with a new single that feels like a classic country tune, with roots undertones and a sort of old western cinematic aesthetic to it, which all works amazingly with the sentiment of the song itself.
The single tells a story of someone falling on hard times, looking back on their mistakes, feeling like they've lost their way, and it really hits home for a lot of us.
"I'll trade my tomorrows for just one yesterday" serves as one of the most potent lines in the track.
The song describes someone for days passed. He misses a certain element of what made him feel like he was home. He's not really looking forward to the future, but is holding on to the past, and it's becoming a well of sadness for him.
The way this is articulated is absolutely brilliant, and John, once again, tells such an intricate story in an amazingly simple way.
He's able to really display the emotion lyrically and set the mood for that emotion instrumentally.
The song is called "Too Many Roads", and for me, it's incredibly relatable.
The track leans into a folk and Americana Style with rolling snares played with brush sticks, so you have a certain smoothness in its approach, and clean acoustic guitars that are feeling very lush, giving the song a full body but still semi-stripped-down kind of feel.
John's vocals are almost always heartfelt. He's really able to portray the emotion within the story and sentiment in a way that makes you think.
That's what this kind of music is for. It's for you to soak in the story but it also displays a message that makes you think.
I think it's important to have songs that make you feel something, and John Jenkins is usually one of the top artists who deliver those kinds of things.
He doesn't hold a lot back when writing his songs, and he's able to lay out those stories so wonderfully that it paints a picture as the song unfolds.
While you listen to the song, memories of your own will likely flash through your head, and that's you connecting with the song.
You're connecting with the message behind it and the way that John displays it all.
Along with the addictive and beautiful progression comes some violins that had cinematic depth and even more emotion to the track, creating a bigger atmosphere for you to fall into and a heftier tonality, letting the song rise in intensity at just the right moments.
It's amazing how John can write a song that feels like it's been around for years and years on the radio. There's something so familiar and almost nostalgic when you listen to songs like this one.
It's not just because it causes memories of your own to flow through your brain, but also because of how it's performed and how the song comes through with a very particular kind of warmth that is almost inviting.
Even though it is a sad song, you're able to get engulfed by it. It's super easy to let songs like this swallow you up, and that's because of both the instrumentation, performances, and lyrics combined.
Everything fits together like puzzle pieces here and John displays such a unique struggle that maybe comes from someplace within himself.
Maybe John himself was faced with a certain kind of struggle where he was forced to choose roads to take and was just lost in the moment.
This is a very common thing. This track focuses on something that happens to a lot of us, and just because we don't know how to articulate that into words ourselves, it doesn't mean that we don't understand it when we hear it out loud.
This Song speaks to us and people like us. Any man who's faced with decisions, roads to take, and also has such memories of times past that they're holding on to tightly, will automatically understand exactly where the song is coming from.
Performed with a very unique elegance that is super common for John in his records, and this sticks to his southern-tinged Americana, folk and Country influences.
Beautifully done from start to finish, listen to this track and see how it affects you, because I'm sure it will.
Remember where you heard it first.
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