SCOTTY MCCREERY - Fall of Summer - Triple Tigers

With a long list of accolades spanning his career resume, which most recently includes his induction into the Grand Ole Opry and landing his sixth #1 with “Cab In A Solo,” Scott McCreery is one of country music’s most decorated stars on the circuit today.

And although several teaser tracks, “Can’t Pass The Bar,” “Lonely,” “Red Letter Blueprint,” and “Love Like This,” have each certainly helped to hype the buzz surrounding his latest album Rise & Fall, he now officially delivers the albums second radio single, “Fall of Summer.”

Written by McCreery, Monty Criswell, Frank Rogers, Derek George, and Brent Anderson, the moodiness of the tone draping the melody expertly adds the proper feels to the overall vibe, matching the heartbreak he’s faced with navigating every time that the first warm breeze begins to roll in off the Carolina coast.

Mentally drifting into wondering if his once ago summer fling still has the same phone number, he carries his rich baritone alongside the continual build of the instrumentation’s increasing pace, guiding the pulsing of his heartbeat as he pushes toward the chorus, cleverly lamenting how “some memories stick around like white sand in the floorboard” while then raising one up to what might have been:

“Here's to my red-light dashboard drummer

Best sunsets that I ever saw

Every kiss like a cold rum runner

I still remember it all, September calling it off

Here's to the rise and fall of summer”

With beach-soaked references showcasing incredible wordsmithing as they’re used only to carefully grip heartstrings, he comparatively strikes that he was like a fading sunburn to her while she was like a lasting tattoo to him, further enhancing the punch of jilted feelings when he then places frustrated blame, “you were the one who taught me how heartbreak happens.”

Though Scotty McCreery has leaned this new album a little more toward the traditional side than his previous efforts, “Fall of Summer” is a no brainer to release as a seasonal single and it will most likely become his next #1.

But it’s not just its modern kissed sound and the relatable lyrics that will catapult this up the charts. It’s the perfect timing of its release. Where most every other artist is floating the feel-good highs of summertime right now with their song choices, McCreery masterfully swerves the commonplace by offering a look back from the fall perspective on the summer girl that got away, standing out with something a little different while still staying within the familiarity of the current vibe.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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