HAYDEN COFFMAN - New Bar - Independent Release

Hayden Coffman is certainly not a stranger to country music fans. His streaming numbers tally millions each song out, his live performances always acquire several thousand new fans, and recent collaborations with hot rising stars Trey Lewis and Chase Matthew have piled on even more newcomers to his music that have helped catapult his status to even greater heights.

Satisfying his fans who longed for new music this past summer with the very well-received EP, Beer Ain’t Cold, which featured breakout track “Take the Lonely,” he has since continued turning the pages into his next chapter with “Tennessee Blue” and now with his latest effort, “New Bar.”

Wrapped around an ultra-modern melody and a production that borrows as much from pop ideals as it does rock teetering edges to vibe the country aspects, his vocals are perfectly enhanced by the surrounding elements as he treks though tones that are laced with missing you conflictions and seeing you here now isn’t helping me ideals.

With a fuel of frustrated regret directed at his own choice to walk into the same bar that he and his ex would frequent together, he laments in the opening verse that he never would’ve walked in and wasted his time if he knew she’d be there on this night.

Confessing in the second verse that she has a hold on him that not even the shots of whiskey can knock out, he then faces the mirror to admit how much it’s breaking his heart, wishing that they would’ve worked out.

Where many songs today will leave this thought right here in the middle of that hurting emotion, Coffman intriguingly swerves the norm to offer solution to the problem through the strike of the chorus, complete with strong backup for his reasoning:

“I gotta find new bar to go to

A little more drinkin, a little less about you

Don’t wanna see your friends or you there with him

Sipping and kissing under the neon like we used to

But you went and broke my heart

So I gotta find a new bar”

Hayden Coffman has always carried an uncanny ability of taking a familiar heartbroken emotion and pinpointing a specific feeling within it to deliver a 3-minute connection between speaker and listener ear, elevating his driven purpose from being just another artist with a cleverly designed song to becoming a friend with a shoulder to lean on. He’s absolutely done that again with “New Bar,” diving deeper into his next chapter to leave a heightened anticipation once again on things still to come.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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