KARISSA ELLA

                                                               "Vintage" 

                                                                Independent Release

It’s pretty easy to look at everything going on in our world right now and find yourself reminiscing and yearning for the good ol’ days to when family traditions meant everything and were laying the groundwork for who you are today; and that’s exactly what Karissa Ella explores on her new single “Vintage.”

Following the tremendous success of “Whiskey Whispers Your Name,” Ella places her crisp, clean vocal atop a toe-tapping, tempo driven melody to get you moving along with the groove before she paints perfect pictures of her family’s history through each of the verses and immediately gets the listener reminiscing on their own.

Singing of her dad first, Ella talks of him revving up the old Trans Am that sits in the driveway every Saturday and talking about his glory days, while then shifting to how her momma has passed her biscuit baking skills down onto her; gleefully speaking of how someday she’ll be doing the same while outlining the notion of passing down family traditions from one generation to the next.

The second verse provides the song with a true full circle moment as she blurs her past into the present day when she sings:

“Saw that 65 Gibson in the crawlspace

That my uncle taught me how to play

We’d strum along, record playing on

Singing to Amazing Grace.”

While the verses offer the very specific moments that shaped who she is today, the chorus sees Karissa lamenting - like so many of us do - as she waxes nostalgic on the way life used to be and how she wants to live like she never missed any moment of those classic days that she best describes in a word, “Vintage!”

Co-written by Ella, Alex Seier, and Chris Buck, “Vintage” refreshingly opens up the family photo album of black and white Polaroids that are all connected to stories of the past, which when told, will have you wishing from today’s perspective that you could close your eyes hard enough and be transported back to when life was simple and the fabrication of who you’ve become was being made in the moments that have become today’s best memories.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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