TYSON LEAMON

                                                                      FT. JACOB BRYANT

                                                                "High Road'" 

                                                                American Roots Records

As Jacob Bryant’s latest single “Amen” continues to strongly impact the country charts, he’s now lending his very distinguishable, gravelly tilted vocal to “High Road,” the new track from Outlaw Gospel singer/songwriter Tyson Leamon.

With his first new music since his 2021 Guitar & A Bible album, Leamon brings honesty, passion, and cold hard truth to a lyric that is equal parts encouraging as it is boldly laying down a challenge to all those who hear it.

Surrounded by the cry of fiddle streaming through its instrumentation, each of their rough around the edge vocals combine with the dusty, outlaw feel in the melody to inject truth into every word, providing grit to their stories which they are telling through experience from their today perspective to those who still trying to traverse the high road path.

Not only glorifying the benefits of taking the high road, but each singer also warns of the turmoil faced when taking that path as well, such as facing loneliness and its many twists and turns, and especially in the bridge when it’s shared that:

“There’ll be hunger

Doubts and questions

you can’t help but feel forsaken

When the night turns bitter cold”

These negative truths are placed perfectly, though, so that they work to enhance the positive reaching of the proverbial mountaintop as they sing of how breathtaking it is to look back on all the miles of accomplishments that are now behind you, and how once you reach that high point, you’ll see that the stretch of tough dirt you’ve been travelling upon is a road that’s actually paved in gold.

However, digging deeper than just the surface to really begin to dissect each line of the lyric will reveal to you that “High Road” isn’t necessarily about all the reasons that make taking that path the perfect way to go, so much as it’s a song that contains a much more powerful message that strikes the heart as it encourages you to fully trust in God when you’re taking the right path and things inevitably get dicey and challenge you.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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