CALLIE MCCULLOUGH -Test Of Time - Independent Release

“I'll never take for granted what it was to grow up with space to run, chores to do, a good family to come home to, being taught right from wrong and all the other lessons that have stood the test of time,” says contemporary, roots singer-songwriter Callie McCullough regarding the inspiration behind her newest song.

“Test of Time” is available now on all streaming and digital platforms.

Following the incredibly thought-provoking “Great Big Sky,” McCullough continues peeling back the layers of her introspective soul search on this latest offering.

Co-written by Callie and Ryan Sorestad, a soft reflectiveness grafts the melodic instrumentation to immediately flow a warmth as her angelic tilts float over the looking back lyrics in an examination of the back then norms of making the things you love last throughout the years.

Like the cello wrapped pages of a black-and-white photo album that she’s flipping through while sitting on her grandparents couch, each of the verses lifts vibrant color into what the Poloroid memories invoke as she draws descriptive lines to the many different loves that have stood the test of time; from the simpler things like her grandpa’s ’63 Impala and hundred year-old farmstead to the deeper and more complex like her grandparents 60-year marriage that was built on a heart-filled love.   

Momentarily blinking out of a yesteryear nostalgia to expose the unfortunate truths of the moving too fast world in which we live in today, the chorus sees her reaching a clear understanding of who she is and how she wants to live and love through a lens that leans into the depth that each next picture reveals to her.

“This world moves fast

Ain’t too many people gonna make things last

They rush in and move on

If it ain’t easy then they’re long gone

But I don’t wanna live their life

I wanna love you right

So, we could stand the test of time”

When you look at everything going on around us today, it’s easy to drift into waxing nostalgia of the way it used to be as an escape from the negativity, the bad news, and the craziness that’s hard to understand.

But where so many of us will often get stuck saying things like what happened to those old-fashioned morals and values, McCullough instead invites those back then snapshots of how to live life into the realization that their impact can still live and breathe in the here and now, challenging us to boldly carry them forward in the way we live our lives.  

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)