PEYTON ALDRIDGE

                                                             "One More Night With You" 

                                                             PUBA Records

The Voice has been a tremendous resource for the country music genre with several of its contestants becoming today’s top stars, while others have earned strongholds on the country music faithful through an output of great songs that connect heart-to-heart. 

Peyton Aldridge, who appeared on the hit TV show only a year ago, currently fits that latter scenario but is quickly earning a one to watch tag with his outpouring of original music as he impacts with his signature feels and continues to build a grassroot following one note at a time.

On the heels of feel-good blasts that he delivered over the warmer weather months, “Oh Yeah” and “Summertime on Rewind,” the Mississippi native now offers his sixth release since appearing on the show, “One More Night With You.” 

The song, co-written by Peyton with Sherrie Austin, Will Rambeaux, and George Cole, is fueled by the haunting regrets that wrap into the whiskey-soaked, traditional infused melody as Peyton tilts the edges of his natural rasp to hold the raw pain of the lyrics.

Bringing us straight into the moment after a breakup when the realizations of the truth start to hit, he begins to look back on all the little things that he would have done differently such as listening more instead of talking and asking her to stay instead of walking away.

The second verse, like so many of us will often do, sees him holding tightly to his favorite memory of what used to be as he paints the perfect visuals of the first time that they went out dancing and they laughed together while he stepped on her toes.

But it’s during the chorus where Aldridge truly injects the depth of his regret-filled heartbreak when he drives into the toe-tapping tempo to face the mirror and admit to himself just how much he’d be willing to give up to go back and do it all over again now that it’s gone, lamenting in the hook that “I’d trade in all my days for one more night with you.”

Though songs with themes like this are prevalent within the country music genre, Aldridge expertly knows all the different nuisances of his voice to use it such dynamic ways that it perfectly carries the necessary emotional tugs to elevate the strike with the broken-hearted listener, aptly connecting with them as he reaches empathetically through the speakers to let them know they aren’t alone.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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