Orange Animal's new single Place for Me, is a song that begins in emptiness and slowly fills with something deeper, warmer, and harder to let go of. It feels like sitting alone in a dark auditorium, staring into a low-burning fire. The air is heavy. The silence stretches. And then, without warning, something shifts. The flames rise. The room fills. Voices return. The people you love find their way back in.
What starts as isolation becomes connection. What sits heavy in your chest begins to move.At its core, Place for Me is a question. A vulnerable one. One that lingers long after the music fades.
“My mind falls down to a lonely place - My eyes no more to see your face - If you feel me near to some degree - Will you hold a place for me?”
There’s a raw honesty here. Regret, longing, and the quiet hope that even when things fall apart, something of us remains with the people we love. But this isn’t just about loss. It’s about release. About taking what sits heavy inside and letting it transform into something that makes you stronger, fuller, more open than before.
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Nashville artist Zach Seabaugh has shared a new single “Eastern Time” on Cloverdale Records (Evan Honer, Winyah, Sam Burchfield). Glide Magazine premiered the homesick tune, noting “Steel guitar, gorgeous harmonies, and a triumphant piano serve as a perfect complement to Seabaugh’s heartfelt and soulful lyrical tale of pining for home.”
Written on tour somewhere along the West Coast, “Eastern Time” paints a stark picture of a rambling man longing for home. Seabaugh’s soulful vocals glide like honey over a growling electric: Goodbye California / Like the west coast sun / I’m a man-on-the run / She’s living on Eastern Time. As the song unfolds, his ache billows out over impassioned piano, giving way to a howling chorus.
“I’m not one to stay in the same place for too long,” Seabaugh shares. “I enjoy travel, the adventure of it, but I have to recharge my battery for it,” he shares. “No matter where I go, where life takes me, I’ll always go home to Georgia.”
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Today, Shooter Jennings pays tribute to his longtime friend Jason Boland with a cover of “When I’m Stoned” featuring Willie Nelson. Shooter Jennings explains, “I’ve known Jason Boland for more than half my life. I saw him playing songs in bars. I opened for him the day we got thrown in jail in Baylor County for weed. So naturally, when they asked me to do this project, I enthusiastically agreed and called Willie Nelson to help me out. Boland is a diamond and he’s one of the guys that influenced a lot of what is going on in today’s country music, so it was my pleasure to honor my old friend.”
The cover of “When I’m Stoned” marks the second release in the Hellponies Archives series, named after Boland’s fanbase The Hell Ponies. Late last year, the series began with Flatland Cavalry’s take on “Somewhere Down In Texas” that led Whiskey Riff to proclaim, “While the music [Boland] is creating today is well worth listening to, there is something about the songs on that debut project that proved Boland would be a timeless staple of the red dirt scene. So timeless that new artists are revisiting these tunes and breathing new life into them two decades after their release.”
Last year, Jason Boland & The Stragglers released their Lloyd Maines-produced LP The Last Kings Of Babylon, which garnered widespread acclaim from No Depression, The Tennessean, American Songwriter and Rolling Stone who profiled the “Red Dirt King” in an extensive feature saying, “Nearly every force driving the current renaissance in country music is one that Boland embodies so thoroughly that it cannot be construed in a buzz word.”
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