COLE SWINDELL - Spanish Moss - Warner Music Nashville

With the thought-provoking “Kill A Prayer” and his current Top 10 “Forever To Me” already leading the charge of anticipation, Multi-Platinum, ACM Award-winning superstar Cole Swindell has now officially announced his fifth studio album (Due June 27, 2025) while simultaneously heightening expectation of things still to come with the release of its title track, “Spanish Moss.”

Written by Cole, Devin Dawson, Jordan Minton, and Jordan Reynolds, the mid-tempo pace expertly floats the breeziness of Swindell’s emotionally powered vocal as he flips through the Polaroid memories of a summer fling that felt so right in the moment but was never meant to be.

Dripping with nostalgia while masterfully paying homage to his beloved home state of Georgia, Swindell invites the listener to travel alongside him on a map dot trip to a Savannah summer, outlining the pictures with careful brush strokes as he paints the scenes that made his heartbeat a little faster.

From first meeting the girl, the type who'll make you want to settle down, to peaking the steamier moments they shared together in the camouflage darkness of the Georgia nighttime amongst the nearness of the ocean breeze and the cool water dripping off their skin, Swindell eyes closed reminisces to the point where he admittedly confesses that “every now and again I taste that salt air on your lips.” 

Crooning the memory induced chorus as the fondest moments that seem to stay locked in his mind come swaggering back in yet again, Cole desperately clings to the blissful pinpoint that he first fell for her, moving his voice into unexpected, though exciting new territories as he sings:

“Ooh, I was holding you
Under that ocean moon over Georgia
Setting that Shenandoah mood
Should've known better
June don't last forever
I don't know about you, but I ain't forgot
You had me falling for you, baby
Hanging off me like that Spanish Moss”

“Some summers you just don’t forget,” he emphatically stamps during the bridge, sliding out of his momentary daydream escape and back into the reality of the here and now, wrapping together the emotional strands tightly into a heartstring tug that adds a strong connection factor for anyone who has loved, lost, and thought about the what if possibilities.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)