DYLAN MARLOWE - Bat Outta Hell (With A Boat On The Back) - Sony Music Nashville

As his recent single “Boys Back Home” is making major impact at country radio, Dylan Marlowe continues to pump out new music; first with his anthem laced rebuttal “You Did It Too,” and now with “Bat Out Of Hell (With A Boat On The Back).”

The song written by Marlowe, Jessie Jo Dillon, and Kyle Fishman, continues to enhance the country boy persona that has become his identifying signature, while intriguingly gripping a softer pace in pure juxtaposition to the fact that the title suggests this could have been a rip-roaring, country banger.

Detailing a solo fishing trip in the opening verse, Marlowe showers us with picture painting descriptives of the great day he’s having lakeside with a fishing pole in hand, reeling them in under a clear blue sky.

However, that picturesque day takes a 180 degree turn when his better half calls to let him know that she’s breaking up with him, instantly swerving him away from his peaceful bliss and into frantic urgency, putting the pedal of his truck to the floorboards, and come hell or high water, trying to stop her leaving:

“Driving like a bat outta hell with a boat on the back

Taking these dirt turns Earnhardt fast

Trying to get there ‘fore the last bag gets packed up

And she leaves me in the dust

Red line, 95 on the truck dash

Fishing poles 'bout to fly out the Bass Cat

Ain’t no way I’m gonna let her get away like that

So, I’m driving like a bat outta hell with a boat on the back

Yeah, I’m driving like a bat outta hell with a boat on the back”

Throwing warning in the second verse in an outline of his urgently beating heart as he races towards her, he laments that not even blue lights could slow him down while declaring that if you’re on the highway, then get out of his way.

His proven abilities to craft pure emotion through story telling lyrics that pull lineage from country music’s roots, allows him to easily glide the heartbreaking realness as he utilizes the melody to match the pacing of his mood -  from calm to frantic - all while weaving the lyrics in such a way so it seemingly plays it cool on the surface (as many of us often do) though he’s freaking out on the inside.

Punching these type of backwoods themes – fishing, Earnhardt, etc. – has become the commonplace for Dylan Marlowe, but it’s also those honesty laced signatures that have made him transparently continue to connect so strongly with his growing fan base; something he’s absolutely done again with “Bat Out Of Hell (With A Boat On The Back).”

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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