
American Heartbreak is a Country album by Zach Bryan, originally released in 2022. On Gatefold: 4 pressings tracked, owned by 11 collectors.
Sound DNA
- Country
- Americana & Roots
- twangy
- earnest
- heartland
About
Country music has a long-held tradition of narrative music, though the commercial side of the genre has strayed away from such character- and story-driven songs in recent years. Zach Bryan is here to change that, though, on his sprawling, ambitious triple album <i>American Heartbreak</i>. Across 34 tracks, the Navy veteran and cult favorite envisions bull riders, long-lost lovers, wandering road warriors, and more, telling their stories over simple arrangements and with an emotionally potent voice that recalls Tyler Childers or early Jason Isbell. “There's plenty of characters on <i>American Heartbreak</i>—some of them I know, some of them I don't,” Bryan tells Apple Music. “Sometimes I'm just in a breakfast place and I see someone doing something and I'm like, ‘It'd be crazy if that person was a bull rider.’ And then I'm like, ‘Oh wait—that would be a cool story.’” Album highlights include the massively successful “Something in the Orange,” which crackles with brooding intrigue, and “From Austin,” a heartbreak song that avoids the tropes and clichés of similar country tracks in favor of more poetic lines like “Babe, I’ve gotta heal myself from the things I’ve never felt.”
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
- 1-1Late July
- 1-2Something In The Orange (Zach & Eddie's)
- 1-3Heavy Eyes
- 1-4Mine Again
- 1-5Happy Instead
- 1-6Right Now The Best
- 1-7The Outskirts
- 1-8Younger Years
- 1-9Cold Damn Vampires
- 1-10Tishomingo
- 1-11She's Alright
- 1-12You Are My Sunshine
- 1-13Darling
- 1-14Ninth Cloud
- 1-15Oklahoma City
- 1-16Sun To Me
- 1-17Highway Boys
- 1-18Whiskey Fever
- 2-1Billy Stay
- 2-2Sober Side Of Sorry
- 2-3High Beams
- 2-4The Good I'll Do
- 2-5Someday (Maggie's)
- 2-6Poems And Closing Time
- 2-7From Austin
- 2-8If She Wants A Cowboy
- 2-9Corinthian's (Proctor's)
- 2-10Open The Gate
- 2-11Half Grown
- 2-12No Cure
- 2-13'68 Fastback
- 2-14Blue
- 2-15Morning Time
- 2-16This Road I Know
Credits
Performers
- Zach BryanACOUSTIC GUITAR VOCALS HARMONICA
- Read ConnollyBANJO PEDAL STEEL GUITAR LAP STEEL GUITAR
- Aksel CoeDRUMS PERCUSSION BACKING VOCALS
- Brooke WaggonerPIANO
- Calvin KnowlesSYNTH ACOUSTIC BASS ELECTRIC BASS
- Seth TaylorACOUSTIC GUITAR ELECTRIC GUITAR MANDOLIN
- J.R. CarrollBACKING VOCALS PERCUSSION
- Billy ContrerasFIDDLE
- Morgan MeinertVOCALS
- Whitney ColemanBACKING VOCALS
- Eddie SpearBACKING VOCALS PIANO
- Graham BrightGUITAR ELECTRIC GUITAR
- Lucas Ruge-JonesFIDDLE BACKING VOCALS
- Caleb BuchfinkBACKING VOCALS
- Dune ButlerACOUSTIC BASS BASS SYNTH
- Kimo MurakiBARITONE HORN HORN
- William MappDRUMS PERCUSSION
- Jeff FielderELECTRIC GUITAR SLIDE GUITAR
11 collectors on Gatefold own this · 4 pressings tracked on Gatefold
