PEYTON ALDRIDGE - Friend With A Beer - PUBA Records

Since his appearance on The Voice, breakout talent Peyton Aldridge has kept extremely busy, finding the perfect culmination of his Mississippi roots within a unique and vibey sound while offering a healthy, all-around flavoring of who he is as an artist/songwriter through several releases over this past year.

Following his sixth song since appearing on the show, “One More Night With You,” he now returns with his brand-new single, “Friend With A Beer.”

With a hip sway embedded into the tempo driven groove through the intro, Aldridge instantly grabs the listener and has them raising a glass into the air as the addictive rhythm swirls around them with a flash of heartland rock fusing with modern country strikes.

“Well she left me alone so I picked up the phone,” he sings on the opening line of the song as his crisp vocal adds just the right softness to the naturally raw grit of his voice, attractively suiting the lyrics that bring us straight into specific situations when you lean on that always reliable friend to be there for you in your worst moments with a non-judgmental shoulder…and a cold one!

A bad day after his girl had left him provides the catalyst in the first verse, while the second masterfully flips the whole script to he himself becoming that friend to lean on in a full friendship circle moment when he sings:

“Well, he gave me shout

Landlord kicked him out

So I showed up at his front door

Cracked a Bud Light said you could crash my couch tonight

Yeah, that’s what friends are for”

The punch of the chorus hits the listener with a sing along style that delivers a snapshot Polaroid of the type of friends who we’ll all recognize in our own lives, giving this feel-good anthem a connectibility as he lists that he’s had friends with money, friends who have let him down, several who came around with a six-pack, etc.

Where so many artists coming off hot television competitions tend to rely on the built-in audience from their appearance on the show, Peyton Aldridge has swerved the predictable standard to instead offer several releases that give us plenty of reason to be intrigued by what’s still to come. “Friend With A Beer” absolutely follows suit as he delivers a stay stuck in your head melody with lyrics that feel ripped right off the pages of our own life’s playbook.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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