Rowan Newby – “Hurry Up and Wait”

Got a new nugget from Southern troubadour Rowan Newby. On “Hurry Up and Wait” he shakes the ‘70s singer-songwriter tree, but never plays things straight. Like Glen Campbell stripped of rhinestones, or a dry-dock Lightfoot high on Skip and Ayers, the song swaps between twang and tremble. Newby crackles through the AM static looking to soundtrack some endless stretch of highway. He notes, “I suppose I wanted this song to reflect my feelings about contemporary songwriting, looking on the bright side of things and the consistent ebb and flow of ‘good days and bad days’ in life and in my case, in being an artist. I guess we’re all “hurrying up to wait” for the next great milestone in life, or at least the next great cup of coffee.” The single’s out now on his Bandcamp and it’ll appear on the upcoming album, Some Hippie You Turned Out To Be.