If you’re expecting cry-in-your-beer tearjerkers, move along.
The material on Robison’s 10-song disc Beautiful Day runs the gamut from heartache and reflection to feelings of renewal and optimism. Overall, the album is surprisingly an upbeat one considering Robison’s recent experiences.
He wrote six of the 10 songs, including “If The Rain Don’t Stop”, a song with a double meaning – weather and the metaphor of hard times. With a fiddle intro, the song is easily the most country-sounding on the album.
Robison also wrote “Feelin’ Good” about being back on good spirits after a difficult experience, the country-folk ballad, “Middle Of The Night” about feeling at home at a honky-tonk or bar and the effect it has on you – “gotta a car full of dents, a face full of lines,” he sings.
Then, there’s the all-out barnburner “She’s So Fine” along with the more rock-influenced sounds of the title track and “Yellow Blues”, which has the cynical lyrics that many who experience divorce would relate – “well, promises are overrated. Vows have just become outdated. Ain’t it True.”
Robison turned in a slight countrified (and respectable) cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Racing In The Street” and also called upon Nashville artist Keith Gattis’ songwriting skills on “Down Again” and “Reconsider”, which Gattis co-wrote with Charles Brocco.
The former deals with an emotional roller coaster with its lyrics – “I’m up, I’m down, I’m up and then, Here I go back down again.”
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