MEGAN MULLINS OWEN

                                                                "Cryin's Comin'" 

                                                                CCB Nashville

As CCB Nashville continues to bring us new music every week as part of their #newmusicfriday initiative, as has been par for the course all year-long, Megan Mullins Owen kicks off the new month in her normal song release position on first Friday.

Over the course of the first half of 2022, Mullins Owen has put on an all-around display of who she is as a singer/songwriter by offering several different looks at her versatile stylings including the modern country vibe of “Trampoline” and “Never Been Good At Letting Go,” the western swing of “This Good is Gettin’ Better,” shots of her fiery fiddle on “All-American Family Band,” and the heart-tugging softness of “He Breaks Things.”

She now returns to kick off August with the Friday night, honky-tonk dancehall infused “Cryin’s Comin’.”

The toe-tapping rhythm of the old-fashioned two-step melody drips with traditional instrumentation; the fiddle as expected from Megan, as well as heavy use of pedal steel to add to this ultra-vintage sound.

Lyrically, she pulls us through the confusing emotions that fit somewhere between a relationship that’s gone awry and wanting to be done with it for good and the inevitable hurt that will come with it when it finally does reach its bitter end.

Pointing at knowing that it’s already over even though he’s technically still there on lines such as “Baby’s gone, except for the going,” while also lamenting on why she stays with him when she sings “He’s better than nothing,” Mullins Owen then backs into the chorus where she admits that she knows that the cryin’ is coming:

“It’ll be like a flood when the dam breaks

Turn my mascara into mud cakes

So, I’ve been holding off the heartache as long as I can”

-AND- 

“Sure ain’t acting like I need him

But it sure beats watching him leaving”

Megan Mullins Owen has continually kept us guessing at what she will reveal from each next song release, and that’s what’s made her so endearing to listen to each month this year. The never knowing what style she’ll offer makes you curiously hit play each time out, as she then always manages to wrap her signature fiddle playing and crisp, clean voice into lyrics that instantly pull you in; just as she’s done again with “Cryin’s Comin’.”

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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