NATE BURNHAM

                                                              "Last Call" 

                                                               Independent Release

Whenever you have a song about an on again/off again type of dysfunctional relationship, and you’re trying to properly capture the emotions of it, you need to make sure that the instrumentation perfectly encompasses the vocal delivery to enhance the yearning and pain of the heartbreak.

Nate Burnham has done this on his newest single “Last Call.”

The song, taken from his sophomore album Nothing but Time, takes us directly into the heartstring pulling 2AM last call that an ex makes to you from the bar even though you’ve split up.

Burnham sings of knowing that he can’t keep playing this back-and-forth game with her because as he reveals, “it’s making it hard to move on.” But he also confesses in the chorus, “here I come running again, and I’ll be all alone in the morning.”

He also uses the chorus (as well as the second verse) to run through the list of reasons that she would be calling him: “I bet you’re fighting with him,” “you must have struck out again,” “you’re on a stool all alone,” “you’re on my side of town,” Etc…

The dusty gravelly feel of Burnham’s vocals captures the difficult emotions of this trying to move on lyric, and when they smash together with the prominent cry of the fiddle, the combination elevates each line to make them hit just right.

I love that he never actually says why they broke up, but rather that he keeps the focus on the missing you feelings that both of them experience; albeit from different perspectives.

It’s funny that Burnham sings in the second verse, “I bet the dance floor is empty,” because “Last Call” is just the type of song to actually pack a dance hall floor for one final slow dance at the end of the night.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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