KAITLYN KILIAN - Hey Highway - Independent Release

With 2021’s “Breakdown,” Oklahoma native Kaitlyn Kilian offered a very solid look at who she is and what she brings to the table as a singer/songwriter.

Since then, she’s carefully crafted her presence with impressive live performances that have continually spotlighted her amazing vocal prowess while increasing attention on her roots infused songwriting with backstage, acoustic video performances of new songs, “Till I Land” and “Shoulda Could Woulda.”  

2023 is already proving to be a breakthrough year for Kilian, who has been seen on the road this fall supporting hot rising Americana artist Wyatt Flores and now arrives at the release of her highly anticipated single, “Hey Highway.”

The song, co-written by Kaitlyn, Cole Miracle, and Billy Montana, delivers an Americana branded tempo that brings us straight to the emotional impacts that chasing your dreams presents, craftily told through an intriguing conversation between herself and the open road while on a cross-country drive toward her next chapter.

“Hey Highway! It’s just you and me out here,” sets the lyrical tone of the one-on-one chat, allowing Kilian to relay that the hometown she just left in the rearview mirror isn’t only a quick stop off an exit marker, while later utilizing the second verse to speak her hidden confession into existence that admits strong as she appears to be in her bold pursuit, she holds the same fears as anyone else who makes a dramatic life change.

But it’s the chorus where the song takes this conversation between her and the highway to a discussion with herself as she faces the mirror through very poetic lyrics which sees her comparatively singing of the highway’s assuredness of itself in contrast to her own insecurities:

“You’ve got it all figured out

You know right where you’re goin’

You weren’t thinkin’ bout turning around

As you pulled out the driveway

And you don’t know how it feels

To hold on to nothing but the wheel

Of a packed up eastbound hand me down Chevrolet

Hey highway”

With her path already accelerating in the right direction, Kilian elevates her status another notch by allowing her vocals to carry a perfect confliction between butterfly nervousness and carefree tonality as she opens her diary to invite us in while she spreads her wings and takes flight, cautiously optimistic in accepting the fact that she’s actually taken the leap. 

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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