CALLIE MCCULLOUGH - Great Big Sky - Independet Release

“I wrote this song for all the wandering hearts out there, the searchers, lovers of adventures, and for my own heart which is always asking questions about this beautiful world we live in,” shared Callie McCullough on her socials ahead of her most recent release, “Great Big Sky.”

Following her very well-received singles “All That I Want” and “What If I Don’t,” solely written by McCullough, “Great Big Sky” quizzically ponders the questions of life while intriguingly expanding her natural folk essence into a Celtic rooted sound.

Floating her angelical vocal over a waltz infused melody that sways the rhythm back and forth like a pendulum, she seeks answers to her internal dialog about what comes next in life and love while shifting tonality in such dynamic ways that it encompasses the feeling that she’s also okay with the mystery of not knowing definitive answers.

Like many of us often do in moments of wonderment about life, there’s an idea of faithful searching embedded into the lyrical flow that’s washed in sweeping soundscapes, carrying a freeing blissfulness within the maturity of her understanding that she can’t carry the whole world’s problems on her shoulders.

“I’m out here wandering the great big sky

I guess I’m still looking for a reason why

The world is so big and I am so small

There’s too many problems, I can’t change ‘em all

There’s too many problems, I can’t change ‘em all”

In a eureka moment that sees her firmly situated in a space of wanting to know all the answers while being okay without knowing any of them, she finds comforting solace in the philosophical spoken word at the tail end of the song, leaving the listener contemplating the deeper of meaning of life and what it really means to be alive.

“Do I travel the earth or do I look to the sky?

Somewhere between the great divide and the great divine

Could that be where the answers lie?”

Striking this type of deep-seated connection with the listener, the lost and wandering, “Great Big Sky” instantly becomes the shoulder to lean on while it lets you know that you’re not alone in your yearning for something more. 

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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