I have yet to hear an artist from the Ozarks do justice to the mid-to-late-90's country sounds made popular by Garth Brooks, Lonestar, and The Chicks. Until our hero Rhett Roberson enters stage left with a six-string and a weathered world view only an old sailor could love. New Music Friday today is special, for we are taking a look at Rhett's Roberson's tune, "Borrowed Winds" which lands as the second track on his debut EP 'All The Hungry Ghosts'.
You might know Rhett from his other music project, The Brothers Roberson, a duo with his brother Brendan. According to their bandcamp, The Brothers Roberson have been releasing music since 2013. The first being their self-titled album. Their bio states:
The Brothers Roberson are a duo hailing from a family rich in country music heritage. Rhett Roberson, the lead singer and main songwriter for the team, is accompanied by his youngest brother, Brendan Roberson, whose harmonies and instrumental asides prove for a hard-to-match combo. Their diverse influences insure you never know what you might get but there's certainly something for everyone.
Fear not for The Brothers are working on new tunes, in the mean time, Rhett has a new bag of tricks on this new EP. You hear him explore various genres with ease, each song taking an older style of rock, pop, or country (or a mixture of all three) and putting a modern spin on it. You can listen for yourself after this read.
"Borrowed Winds" has the usual country palette - acoustic guitars, pedal steel guitar, fiddle, piano and brushed percussion. It is a buffet of fixins' that does exactly what it needs to, provide the canvas for Rhett to spill his guts upon. Tried and true the acoustic guitar and steel make sure to get your heart strings tugging while Rhett laments about life's hardships and what seems to me, his displeasure in the way people talk but don't listen and waste time doing more bad than good. In the abstract of his sailing metaphors, Rhett drops the mic after giving us heavy subject after heavy subject to let the instrumental give us the last punch.
