Outta Nashville | Retrosaint: False Start (Secondary Renaissance / 27 August 2024)

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Retrosaint: False Start
(Secondary Renaissance / 27 August 2024)

False Start is a new single by Retrosaint, a band from Tennessee. The lyrics are an upbeat take on the resilience of love with a nicely poetic sensibility.

REtrosaint - False STart

Their home base is Nashville, and the song not far from country. But, with an edge of old fashioned Americana at its heart, the song comes as a bit of a new direction for the band.

Retrosaints is fronted by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Ross. The song has a hummable refrain, and an emotional and musical progression that transcends both country and Americana.

Ross has an amiable tenor with enough power and expression to make it work. The multi-layered instrumental track, though, is the real star of the show.  Ross, a classically trained pianist, appeared on the reality TV show American Supergroup for its pilot season. 

Along with Ross, the band includes Jonny Lutz on electric guitars, bass and drums. Lutz also produced the track.  Frances Takemoto provided the fiddle-style violins. 

Ross talks about the inspiration for the song in a statement. 

"Sometimes good relationships come to an end, for whatever reason. And sometimes, we think we’ve reached some big milestone in life when in fact, the journey hasn’t even started yet. That’s what "False Start" is about. (No, it’s not a song about football. Har har) I was still processing a breakup, while also witnessing a loved one’s marriage fall apart. Writing this song was the best response I could come up with."

The track marks a new way of working for the band as well.

"This song is the first commercial release to come out of my home studio (still yet-to-be-named) in Nashville," says Ross, "a project that was several years in the making. Besides the mastering, the only people involved in creating it were close friends of mine–a departure from my past approach to the recording process. I’m super proud of this fact!"

Personnel:

  • David Ross – Songwriter, Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards
  • Jonny Lutz – Electric guitars, Drums, Bass
  • Frances Takemoto – Violin 

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