![]() ![]() It’s actually not unusual for an artist to write and/or record 34 songs or more in the run up to an album release. That’s just what you’re going to get from Zach Bryan. Of course there are some rushed, under-produced, poorly recorded and constructed tracks on this album that were taken out of the oven half baked. Are they any good? Is it even worth diving into? Where in the hell does one even start? Just to ingest this thing in one sitting, you risk estranging yourself from your children, having to pony for a divorce lawyer, or flunking out of the spring semester from the time commitment it requires. This is the Americana version of Beatlemania.īut how about the actual songs of American Heartbreak. He could drop another 34-song album tomorrow and they would still be here for it. For his voracious fans, the 34 songs of American Heartbreak were too long in coming, and still not enough. ![]() Meanwhile, if/when you see Zach Bryan out there in the wild, his fans will be singing of every one of these 34 songs right there with him, and verbatim, along with all the other songs Zach Bryan has released over the last four years. It’s already set the single day streaming record for a country album on both Spotify and Apple Music. Then sit back and watch as the thing racks up an insane amount of metadata through Zach Bryan’s extremely engaged fan base, and challenges for the very top spots on the charts once all those streams are counted. Stroke your chin and espouse all the conventional wisdom about music that you want, including what a boner Zach Bryan is pulling here with this hard drive dump of an album that doesn’t even include any vinyl copies, and doesn’t even seem to have a publicist or any media push behind it. It was a charge first taken up by the Outlaws in the 70s, reignited by Hank Williams III and independent labels like Bloodshot Records in the 90’s, championed later by Sturgill Simpson, then brought to an entirely new level by artists like Cody Jinks, Tyler Childers, and others.īut now it’s a “viral songwriter”-a new designation we’ve had to add to the lexicon-that has gone from messing around in an AirBNB recording amateur songs with his friends, to a guy that has perhaps on the precipice of becoming one of the hottest names in popular music with his new 34-song album American Heartbreak.ģ4 songs? Hell, why not. Welcome ladies and gentlemen to an entirely new era in the effort to upstage the powers that be in country music, and return the control back to the artists and fans, while simultaneously returning the soul and heart back to the songs.
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