#sandpaper by zach bryan

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“if lovin’s wrong, what’s a boy to do ? i ain’t scared of death, i’m scared of losin’ you. you ain’t outta my league, yer outta this planet—but dammit, if you ain’t drilled into my skull”

— sam collins to his darlin

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Took a trip uptown to clear you out of my mind

[westernstarofthenorth]

Zach Bryan - Sandpaper (feat. Bruce Springsteen)

Alternative title could be "I'm on fire 2"- the beat. Love it ❤️

[novemberhush]

Tag game for people I’d like to get to know better/catch up with.

Thanks for tagging me, @littleblackraincloudofcourse !❤️

Five ships I love - Ooh, let me see…

1) Leo Hölzer x Adam Schürk from Tatort Saarbrücken (because it’s nearly that time of year again! 🎉🎉🎉)

2) Benton Fraser x Ray Vecchio from Due South

3) Sherlock Holmes x John Watson (be it in the original ACD stories, the Granada television version, the BBC version, etc.)

4) Mike Ross x Harvey Specter from Suits

5) Thomas Barrow x Andy Parker from Downton Abbey (you give them the same surnames as Bonnie and Clyde, arguably the most famous criminal couple in history, and then you don’t put them together?? WTF, Julian Fellowes??)

First ship ever - Showing my age here, but I think it’s between David Addison x Maddie Hayes from Moonlighting, Anne Shirley x Gilbert Blythe from the series of Anne of Green Gables television adaptations that were out in the 1980s, and James Dempsey x Harriet ‘Harry’ Makepeace from Dempsey and Makepeace. The shows were all out around roughly the same time so I don’t remember which was first, but there’s not much between any of them, I’d say.

Last song you heard - Sandpaper by Zach Bryan (feat. Bruce Springsteen)

Favourite childhood book - I don’t have any one particular favourite that stands heads and shoulders above the rest, but Red Sky in the Morning by Elizabeth Laird and Children on the Oregon Trail by A. Rutgers Van Der Loeff are two that I remember having an effect on me. I was also a big fan of all the Enid Blyton mystery books, such as the Famous Five and the Secret Seven and the Five Find-Outers and Dog, as well as other children’s mysteries like Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators, The Hardy Boys and, of course, Nancy Drew. I also had a Rupert the Bear annual and a Winnie the Pooh book I enjoyed a great deal, as well a big book of fairytales, complete with illustrations, that I loved.

Currently reading - I’m (slowly!) reading a physical copy of All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker, which is very good so far (but also very long!), and on the kindle app I’ve finally got around to reading The Charioteer by Mary Renault, which I’m absolutely flying through.

Currently watching - Mainly Grantchester and reruns of Wire in the Blood (no, I don’t have a thing for Robson Green!) and Law and Order: SVU (although I’m pretty much always watching reruns of SVU.).

Currently consuming - I’m making my way through a packet of Fruit Salad Chewits (chewy sweets, for anyone who doesn’t know what Chewits are).

Currently craving - Some more of the absolutely delicious potato gratin I had for dinner on Friday night. It was sooooooooooo good. My mouth’s watering just thinking about it.

I tag @tkandbuck @smowkie @katries @oneawkwardcookie @dontcallpanic @sofancydancy @chaoticfandomgirly @backgroundnoisewithaview @kinkykinard and anyone else who wants to share. No pressure on anyone who doesn’t!😘

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Sandpaper - Zach Bryan

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Zach Bryan - The Great American Bar Scene

There’s no artist like Zach Bryan, especially with his meteoric rise to fame within the last couple of years. I remember hearing his name back in 2021, but he was an underground artist. Now that everyone knows about him, what happens next? Since Zach Bryan is arguably one of the biggest artists in the world, he can do whatever he wants at this point. His self-titled album from last year was his stepping stone, and it was the album that catapulted him to the stratosphere of country music. Hell, he dropped an EP just a few months later, which boasted features from Bon Iver and Noah Kahan.

He’s been teasing The Great American Bar Scene for awhile now, but we finally got it a week ago (as of writing this, anyway). I loved the self-titled, as it was in my top three albums of the year for 2023, so expectations were high. Fortunately, I’d say this record is quite good, and it’s still one of the best of the year, but it doesn’t top the self-titled. If anything, The Great American Bar Scene is starting to show the cracks of Bryan’s formula that originally worked quite well (and still does, frankly, at least to a degree, anyway), and I don’t know how much longer his formula can hold up without people finally getting sick of it or realizing what it is.

Zach Bryan’s formula is pretty simple: he’s a singer-songwriter that blurs the lines between folk and country, his lyrics are usually very honest, and he has a very “authentic” persona that a lot of people find interesting. That’s why he got big in the first place, because people have been vying for an authentic country artist that goes against the mainstream, especially the bro-country and pop-country eras within the last decade. Bryan’s biggest problem is that a lot of his music is the same. Even as a huge fan, I can’t deny it. I’ve gone on record many times saying that I’m mixed when it comes to artists who keep their sound stagnant, because it depends on the artist and what their sound is. If a sound works for me, it works, but I’m picky about it.

Bryan’s sound has worked for me for a long time, whether it’s for his voice being good, his lyrics being well-written, and knowing how to write some catchy songs, but he doesn’t know when to cut himself off at times. His albums end up becoming self-indulgent and running way too long, and that might be why my favorite project of his will always be 2022’s Summertime Blues. It’s a brisk half hour and has some of his best material, but his albums are always overstuffed, even if they’re not necessarily bland or bad. Hell, 2022’s American Heartbreak is two and a half hours, and it didn’t need to be that long, The self-titled wasn’t too bad, but The Great American Bar Scene is a little over an hour with 19 songs. If that isn’t self-indulgent, I don’t know what is, but I still quite enjoy it.

The Great American Bar Scene is very much in line with Zach Bryan’s sound, but that’s also its biggest issue — it’s just a typical Zach Bryan album, which is great for diehard fans, but for those that want some variety or something new, you won’t get it. I love his “typical” sound, so I’ll eat this album right up, but I can also acknowledge it’s got some problems. I don’t know if we’re getting a diminishing return here, because this record has some of his best songs. The price of admission alone is worth it for “Purple Gas,” “Pink Skies,” and with what I think is the most important moment of the album, “Sandpaper” that features The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen.

To some, that feature may not make sense, but this album is Bryan’s Nebraska (which is Springsteen’s 1982 acoustic solo album that’s the outlier of his work, as well as his darkest, lyrically speaking). This album doesn’t have anything as dark as that album, but it’s a basic singer-songwriter album in the same vein, and he uses the album as a way to tell stories about various people, whether it’s himself or another character. Having The Boss himself is a big moment for any younger artist; The Gaslight Anthem had him on their comeback album from last year, although I felt The Boss was a little phoned in on that album. He sounds a lot livelier on this record, thankfully.

Aside from that, though, this record is standard Zach Bryan, but there is a lot to really appreciate, which are the still the trademarks of a typical Zach Bryan album, so it’s kind of two-fold. This is a great ZB album, and diehard fans are sure to love this to the moon and back, but I can see fans and the mainstream being more apprehensive towards this, minus a few big singles. Bryan’s voice sounds fantastic, the storytelling and the lyricism is rich and beautiful, and even the songs themselves are written well, despite becoming meandering or derivative after a certain point. I love this record, warts and all, and you’ll certainly see it somewhere on my yearend list.

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the best strategy to get me to enjoy a pretty mediocre indie song like this is to put old man bruce delivering the most heartbreaking earnest vocal performance that makes me feel like ive just been visited by a very kind twinkly eyed and wrinkly faced angel. Amen

[bruce-springsteen-live-studio]

Zach Bryan - Sandpaper (feat. Bruce Springsteen)

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sandpaper zach bryan feat. bruce springsteen ily. shape you take when you're laying like that it reminds me of a love ive never had. wtf.

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thanks for the tag @volatilevale 🤝

rules: shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist and post the first 10 songs, then tag 10 friends

punching in a dream - the naked and famous

you can have it all - yo la tango

halah - mazzy star

althea - grateful dead

about a girl - nirvana

sandpaper - zach bryan

here comes that sound - love de-luxe

home - lcd soundsystem

heaven or las vegas- cocteau twins

squabble up - kendrick lamar

Tagging @oneheartoverthemoon @notreallyricky @rostovs @blue-spruce-bruce @junkmanserenade @coochifer @cr3ta @retrogradebluntrotation and whoever else wants to share! 🫡

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Hey! Thanks for your ask. Here’s your playlist poem!❤️

The shape you take when you lay like that,

Young in all the wrong ways,

Go on and put on that dress that all the bad boys like,

Turn on the TV, act like you don’t see me,

Is it my fault you’re lost?

The songs were Sandpaper by Zach Bryan featuring Bruce Springsteen, Young in All the Wrong Ways by Sara Watkins, Oklahoma Smokeshow by Zach Bryan, Spotless by Zach Bryan featuring The Lumineers, My Fault by Shaboozey featuring Noah Cyrus.

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Cappelle Classics - Best of 2024 part I - 17 december 2024

De eerste van twee uitzendingen van Cappelle Classics op Ice Radio waarin ik mijn favoriete muziek uit 2024 draai.

Terugluisteren kan hier.

Dit was de playlist:

Kings of Leon - Mustang The Last Dinner Party - Caesar On A TV Screen Eefje de Visser - Heimwee Elbow - Balu The Indien - How Many Nights Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God Pearl Jam - Wreckage Aaron Frazer - Time Will Tell The War & Treaty - Stealing A Kiss Billie Eilish - Lunch Beyoncé - Bodyguard Zach Bryan feat. Buce Springsteen - Sandpaper The Black Keys - On The Game Eddie Vedder - Save It For Later

Volgende week dinsdagavond van 22:00 t/m 23:00 is er weer een nieuwe uitzending van Cappelle Classics op Ice Radio. De uitzending wordt op donderdag van 13:00 tot 14:00 herhaald.

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The Great American Bar Scene-Zach Bryan

1-Lucky Enough (Poem)

2-Mechanical Bull

3-The Great American Bar Scene

4-28

5-American Nights

6-Oak Island

7-Purple Gas

8-Boons

9-The Way Back

10-Memphis; The Blues

11-Like Ida

12-Bass Boat

13-Better Days

14-Towers

15-Sandpaper

16-Northern Thunder

17-Funny Man

18-Pink Skies

19-Bathwater

2024

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