Randy Rogers Band - "Too Late For Goodbye"

With the release of “Too Late For Goodbye” the Randy Rogers Band is trying, once again, to get a single up the mainstream country charts.  As talented as any band in country music (mainstream or otherwise), the Randy Rogers Band certainly have the ability to be stars and in a perfect world they would be. 

Brady Black’s fiddle guides the song in the intro and then we hear minor key changes before the chorus, the fiddle becomes audible while the B-3 organ is also noticeable and then in the bridge of the song, Geoffrey Hill’s does some nifty guitar work before getting a solo of his own.  The back line of drummer Less Lawless and bassist Jon Richardson guides the whole melody behind every nuanced lyric is narrated by band namesake and lead singer Randy Rogers. 

Much like he did with Lady Antebellum producer Paul Worley accentuates what makes Randy Rogers Band stand out from the rest of the pack. While this is a mid-tempo song about declaring a relationship finally over, the lyrics of the song (co-written by Rogers and Sean McConnell) are strong, particularly the hook of “It’s not a game, it’s not your choice, must be strange to hear my voice saying don’t come back this time, it’s too late for goodbye.”   

Perhaps the most interesting thing about “It’s Too Late For Goodbye” is that the song seems to get better each and every time I hear it.  When I first heard the song earlier in the week (it’s Friday as I write this),  I felt that this song wasn’t even gonna get a chance on the charts but after hearing it, I am starting to feel that “It’s Too Late For Goodbye” might just give the Randy Rogers Band their first real chance at a major hit (a Top 20 country chart hit).  In fact, the only problem that they’re going to run into with this song is the fact that it’s not an ‘immediate’ hit for radio programmers or song tests.  I know of one ‘testing’ of the song on a station where the song didn’t induce fans to vote for it one way or another.  This is bad because the worst thing for a song is for fans to be indifferent to it, which may just happen here.