DYLAN MARLOWE

                                                                "You Were Right (Nat's Song)"

                                                                Sony Music Nashville

Whenever a singer-songwriter can fully let down their guarded walls and pour real life emotions into every word of their lyrics, their vocal performance hits a natural honesty that is so real it tugs on heart strings in all the right ways.

Following his very well-received single, “Record High,” rising country sensation Dylan Marlowe now returns with his most personal song to date, “You Were Right (Nat’s Song).”

In what was initially a tender moment between him and his fiancé, Dylan not only gifts her the night before their wedding with the release of the song he wrote about the self-reflective realizations he experienced as he fell in love with her, but he also allows the listener the opportunity to vicariously become part of their love story.

The soft, piano based instrumentation enhances the rawness of his voice as it grips the proper emotion of the lyrics as he confesses that he’s settling down like she said he would if love felt right, before punching the chorus to spell out all the ways he’s changing for the better:

“I’ve been drinking less beer these days

Been cleaning up this old truck

Been getting my act together

Oh girl, look at what you’ve done

I’ve been spending less time in the woods

A little more on that front porch swing

That Jon boat sitting out back

Looks more and more like a diamond ring

Look at me, look at here, holding you on a Friday night

I guess you were right”

This open love letter is a wonderful, heartfelt sentiment as it is on the surface, but Marlowe’s crafty songwriting prowess really shines in the underlying fact that this song isn’t about him at all, but rather it’s about praising her for not trying to change who he is; something we clearly get in the second verse when he tells the boys that he would go out with them some other time, before poignantly stating:

“The crazy thing is I know I could

And you wouldn’t even try to change my mind”

Marlowe absolutely gives his new bride a wonderfully unexpected gift on their wedding day with “You Were Right (Nat’s Song),” but he also provides the listener with a snapshot of what pure, unselfish love is supposed to look like; aptly providing the blueprint to follow for a successfully, healthy relationship.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)