BUCK FORD

                                                               "Heart That's Gonna Break" 

                                                               Independent Release

The mainstream country music sound is always shifting and evolving, but whenever it does, it often leaves the fans of eras gone by without any new music to grab hold of. However, when you dig down below the mainstream surface, you’ll most likely be able to discover a new artist and find exactly what you’re looking for.

There’s no doubt that 90’s country is highly regarded as one of the genres best eras, and that isn’t a fact that’s lost on country wrangler Buck Ford as he prominently displays on his new song “Heart That’s Gonna Break.”

The song, although it does contain just enough shots of modern flare to not make it sound out of touch with today, leans mostly against a very strong 90’s country influence to deliver great storytelling that pulls you into the lyric, and then combines it with a built for honky-tonk feel in the instrumentation and mid-tempo kissed melody.

“He’s a cowboy, she’s a city girl,” opens the song and presents the initial personality conflict. But as this relationship escalates, it’s quickly revealed that the cowboy is only going to break her heart by doing what he always does when he meets someone new - up and leave in a week or two and go on his way.

While the chorus does tell us that this is just the same ole story for the cowboy, who is described as a player of the “love” game, the true depth to the story comes through an interesting twist when the cowboy meets a second city girl, one who is a little more compatible with him then the first one was, but who ultimately will play a “love” game of her own and break his heart. 

“She’ll give it a month or two

Then she’ll be sneaking out early

Carrying her high heeled shoes.”

Buck Ford has given us a song that truly encompasses all the best attributes of traditional country storytelling through songwriting. While we’re first drawn in and follow the cowboys lust interests, Ford presents the lyrics in such a crafty way that you feel bad for the first girl in the story, and so when he gets his comeuppance from the second girl, you don’t necessarily feel so bad when it’s his heart that’s breaking.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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