After trying hard to break through with their brand of countrified roots rock with two previous albums, The Lost Trailers scored with their breakthrough hit “Holler Back” and subsequent BNA Records album of the same name. That album contained six new tracks and four tracks from their failed self-titled BNA album. After scoring a Top 20 follow-up with mid-tempo ballad “How ‘Bout You Don’t,” The Lost Trailers return to one of those four tracks with “All This Love.” Fans not used to the Georgia band’s Springsteensian-like “Welcome To The Woods”-era sound will no doubt be surprised that the band has gone from the kitschy but successful “Holler” to the Lonestar/Emerson Drive-like power ballad “Don’t” to heartland rock with so much ease. In all honestly, the sonic sound present on “All This Love” is right where the Lost Trailers should stay.
While “All This Love” isn’t an exactly earth shattering in the lyric department (which is surprising given that three very good songwriters –Gary Nicholson, Jon Randall and Paul Overstreet- co wrote it), the melody is strong and the vocal from Ryder Lee helps to sell what would be a sub-par song in many band’s hands into something that won’t make you wanna change the dial. The song certainly is a better choice than a couple of other tracks that are on the “Holler Back” album (read review here), particularly the song “Countr y Folks (Living Loud),” a song that probably plays really well in concert and, in a different time, it might have made a great song but the theme’s too tired to get airplay now. So, in the end, while “All This Love” may not be the earth-shattering hit the band had hoped for, it still is better than what could’ve been and helps keep a band like the Lost Trailers, who do have a place in modern mainstream country music, on the charts.
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