RILEY GREEN - Damn Good Day To Leave - Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment

With his career in motion at a rapid pace ever since the release of last year’s Ain’t My Last Rodeo, which featured “Mississippi Or Me” and high impacting single “Different Round Here,” Riley Green has positioned himself under the spotlight of discussion of what his next official radio single will be.

He now answers with “Damn Good Day To Leave.”

The fan favorite, written by Green, Erik Dylan, Jonathan Singleton, and Nick Walsh, is perfectly suited for the warmer weather months that are now upon us as it leans into its ultra-catchy melody and irresistible rhythm to immediately get you shaking your hips and tapping your toes.

With his very distinguishable drawl expertly matching the que sera sera like shrug of his shoulders, he throws a vibe of it’s all good amid her leaving, cheerfully embracing the amazing day that she chose to walk out; both in the physical and metaphorically.

“Girl, I always pictured it’d be pourin’ down rain” he sings on the opening line of the song as he trails through a listing of all the ways that he thought the day would look when she walked out versus what it is in reality, landing at the simple fact that it’s 75 degrees outside and there’s nothin’ but blue skies all-around while raising an anthem laced toast to her goodbye in the chorus:

“You picked a damn good day to leave me
Sittin' here, cooler full of Keystone
Nothing to do but fish all day long
A pocket full of three-day weekend money
Ain't a heartbreak cloud in the forecast, honey
I hate to see you go but if you ask me
You picked a damn good day to leave”

With hints of sarcasm embedded into his tone throughout the second half of the song, Green further embraces how much better things will be now without her around, where in a eureka moment he realizes that he can watch the game without having to hear her complaining, get wrapped up in old John Wayne movies instead of The Bachelorette, etc.

Is this concept anything new to country music? Of course not. Just look for example at songs like Kenny Chesney’s “Save It For A Rainy Day” or David Nail’s “Red Light.” However, Riley Green’s ability to take such a universally common theme, find a way to uniquely navigate the positivity within it, and deliver an anthem that strikes the core of the listeners, are the very reasons that he continues to resonate so much and separate himself from the pack as one of the elite. 

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis/Artwork c/o Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment)

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