SARAHBETH TAITE - First Rodeo - Independent Release

With the announcement that her new EP, The Way We Started, is officially set to release on August 23rd, Sarahbeth Taite continues to showcase her ability to weave an endearing melody around a clever lyric that turns nostalgic pages in the photo album of her life on her latest offering, “First Rodeo.”

The song, co-written by Taite, Grant Vogel, and Scott Stepakoff, floats her reminiscing vocal atop a melody the glides along its ebbs and flows allowing for Taite’s voice to become the spotlight centerpiece as the lyrics flip the script on the age old saying “this ain’t my first rodeo,” to instead, take us back to her first love and first heartbreak.

“Seventeen I was green as the grass we were parked on,”  she remembers over the opening line of the song, setting in motion the young love tale of going a little too far one night, falling head over heels in the moment, and thinking that they were going to last forever…until they didn’t!

“You were my first rodeo

My first ride down a red dirt road

Like a bull right outta of the gate

We took off in a cloud of smoke

Held on longer than I probably should

I fell harder than I thought I would

My first taste of a love running wild

First time my heart got broke

You were my first rodeo”

Lamenting in the second verse that she probably should’ve recognized before crossing the line with him that he was the type who would metaphorically “skip town and head for the next one,” she admits the found silver lining in that she had learned her love lesson of heartbreak from the best of them.

By keeping a lens on the beautifulness of the moment from her now perspective rather than carrying regret or anger inside about the heartbreak that it caused, “Thought you’d be my last but I’m glad that I didn’t know,” Taite expertly showcases a picture of where her life is happily at today.

Following diary paged snapshots “Pretty Good Living” and “Diamond And A Baby”  with a song that will merge comfortably onto playlists that feature “Strawberry Wine” and “Watermelon Moonshine,”  Sarahbeth Taite continues to raise intrigue for things still to come from her EP through a song that once again sees her pausing to appreciate her life in the here and now by looking back at the moments that redirected her path to getting there.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)