DRAKE WHITE

                                                              "Ladder To The Sky" 

                                                              Reverend White, LLC

With several hit songs already lining his resume, “Simple Life,” “Livin’ The Dream,” “It Feels Good,” “Makin’ Me Look Good Again,” and “Power of a Woman,” country-soul singer Drake White is certainly no stranger to country music fans.

His unapologetic bending of styles and keen abilities to stretch genre borders has created a sound uniquely his own while he’s continually captivated the listener as he’s most recently shown on his very well-received album The Optimystic and his latest single “Spirit.”

He now delivers the inspiringly powerful, “Ladder To The Sky.”

The song, co-written by White, Vanessa Olivarez and Andy Skib, rests on the calm pacing of the soft strum over the floaty melody as Drake places his rich vocal into the dream like atmosphere of the opening verse, weaving us through an ultra-personal peace that arrives with accepting the unknown as he embraces the positivity of the heaven imagery he’s painted, “things were looking up, I was looking down” and “for a while everything was alright.”

Where the opening verse spoke vividly about his own personal experiences, the second verse shifts spotlighting focus to the trials and tribulations that we all face, done in such a delicate way that that it becomes uber motivating:

“It ain’t easy the trip is long

Before you know it, the ground is gone

Trust your grip and close them weary eyes

It’s leaning up against the harvest moon

Find the end of what you got to lose

We’re all gonna get there in our own sweet time”

With humble, inward admission that its himself who’s standing in the way to finding an ultimate peace on earth, the bridge wraps the thought-provoking song together with its encouraging reminders to stop our worrying and to just hold tight to the fact that the universe knows no limits, so nor should we.

“Ladder To The Sky” is Drake White doing what he does so well as a songwriter and vocalist. He expertly places the raw honesty of his voice into a melody that is as addictive as it is gentle, poetically painting a perfect picture that gives us permission to slow things down and enjoy our lives, all the little moments of it, before it passes us by.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis/Artwork by: Zack Knudsen)

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