MATT JORDAN FT. KAYLEY BISHOP - Greatest Story - ONErpm

With a solid strategy of hyping anticipation for his upcoming album Low Lights (February 23, 2024), heartland country rocker Matt Jordan spent the past year laying foundation through several single releases: "Run Tonight," "Don't Mean," “Steal Away the Night,” “Steering Wheel,”  “Always A Girl” and “Anyone But Me.”

He now delivers one more piece of the overall puzzle with his new single, “Greatest Story.”

The song, co-written by Jordan and Jarett Hartness, intriguingly duets with Kayley Bishop (Season 15 of NBC’s The Voice) as they melody walks a fine line between edgy modern country and throwback era rock, allowing the impact of each vocal to add emotion to both perspectives in what he describes as, “a love song about a love that never actually happened.”

Leaning the grit of his voice into the looking back vibes, Jordan opens the song by vividly painting the picture of the night that they first met, reminiscing on how she was stealing his cigarettes over small talk even though she had her own, wearing his too big for her jacket, etc.

Likewise, the second verse sees Bishop not only describing a specific memory of throwing a penny into a wishing fountain on that magical night, but also painstakingly delving into the here and now when she laments that while she could’ve sworn that they’d still be together she “couldn’t tell you where you are right now.”

With both voices carrying a certain degree of missing you pain within their rasp, they join together in the chorus to fuel stellar harmony as they both come to accept what never was and say goodbye to what could’ve been: 

“Hey hey baby you can call it what ya wanna call it 

We were two hearts fallin’ in 

Head first shoulda wrote the end first 

Shoulda read in reverse

Had a million copies sold 

Guess I was just a hand to hold

In the greatest story never told”

With each song that Matt Jordan has released as a preview of things still to come, including now “Greatest Story,” he’s expertly designed his output through a raw honesty that’s not only highlighted all of his unique signature feels, but that has reached through the speakers with a relatability to strike the right chord with the listener, often times enticing them to reminisce on their own memories of snapshot moments that shaped their life.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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