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Oklahoma

Unheard Oklahoma Music

All Because of You (feat. Graham Colton & Lindsey Ray) by Sooner The Sunset

Sonner The Sunset is Graham Colton & Linsey Ray of Oklahoma. They released their one and only album in 2012 titled Sonner The Sunset featuring a pop-folk set of songs that are catchy and fun. Currently, Sooner The Sunset have 65 Monthly Listeners on Spotify making them a perfect candidate for our Artist Spotlight.

Sooner The Sunset excelled at love songs. I enjoyed the electric-pop feel of Love is Landing, and I just adore the humming involved with Helium Heart; However, I wanted to introduce you to my favorite song of theirs, All Because of You. A sweet song that I like to pretend they made for each other, but who knows. Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/GeOjJEIs4yo

LYRICS (courtesy of songmeaning.com with a few corrections)

Left the door wide open
Didn’t have a clue
Thought that I had locked it
The lock was broken too
In you came like summer rain
Filling up my heart and yours too

I got all these symptoms I can’t describe
Tell me is there something that can be prescribed
All these nights of losing sleep
Left me in this state my heart goes

Pitter pat
I’m tongue tied
I’m feeling all these butterflies
My mouth is dry, can hardly speak
My heart keeps playing hide and seek
I think I’m coming down with something, love-sick kind of flu
I’m working up a fever and it’s all because of you

Do do do do do do (x3)
All because of you

I’ve been dead I can’t kick
No matter how hard I try
My knees are getting weaker and I can’t deny
Falling faster Falling deep
Felt it from the start
My heart goes

Pitter pat
I’m tongue tied
I’m feeling all these butterflies
My mouth is dry, cad hardly speak
My heart keeps playing hide and seek
I think I’m coming down with something love-sick kind of flu
I’m working up a fever and it’s all because of you

I’m in love
It’s all because of you
(I can’t keep from falling) x8

Pitter pat
I’m tongue tied
I’m feeling all these butterflies
My mouth is dry, can hardly speak
My heart keeps playing hide and seek
I think I’m coming down with something love-sick kind of flu
I’m working up a fever and it’s all because of you

Pitter pat
I’m tongue tied
I’m feeling all these butterflies
My mouth is dry, can hardly speak
My heart keeps playing hide and seek
I think I’m coming down with something love-sick kind of flu
I’m working up a fever and it’s all because of you

Do do do do do do (x3)
All because of you

Commentary

What is there to say? This is just a lovely song. I really love the idea of blaming the other person for your feelings. Normally, I would considerate that irresponsible, but here it is sweet. It’s kind of funny how the same concept can be both horrible and wonderful.

If you listen with really good headphones during the ‘I’m in love, it’s all because of you” bridge you can hear a sort of conversation going on in the background. This is an interesting concept to me. I do not understand it, but it definitely gives the song an extra bit of warmth. It is so soft I can’t make out any of what is being said, but i’m sure it is lovely.

You can listen to the entire album of Sooner The Sunset on Spotify or follow them on Facebook. You can purchase this song or their album on Amazon or iTunes. Graham Colton and Lindsey Ray both have solo careers which you could check out on Spotify as well.

If you like this song you might want to check out our article on The Soorleys.

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Female Lead Music Tennessee

What Does Home Mean?

Oslo by De Joie

De Joie is singer/songwriter Kaley Rutledge. Her 7,780 monthly Spotify listeners makes her (by far) the most popular artist we have spotlighted so far. In De Joie’s first album she grapples with the idea of home. Kaley lives in Nashville, but she really found a sense home in her travels to Western Europe. These places impacted her so much that when she got back to the States she made an album of four songs, a song for each city she visited.

Oslo is the first song on De Joie’s album August and is my personal favorite. She mixes vox, strings, and synths to give this song a healing presence. In Olso, De Joie really captures the joy of thriving where you belong. Listening to this song put a smile on my face and I hope it will do the same for you. Lyrics and Analysis below.

Lyrics to Oslo by De Joie (courtesy of jiosaavn)

Can you hear me say “I love you” from across the sea?
Can you hear me whisper to you my dreams?
Well, the weather is fine here in Oslo
We’re about to jump on a plane to the west coast

There’s a view we can’t miss
I wouldn’t dream of it
There’s a view we can’t miss
I wouldn’t dream of it

I was born to be wild and free
Traipsing the coast line of some craggy beach
Go on and tell ’em I’m in good company
Wild and free

Can you hear me say, “I love you” from theses far way places?
All these wide open spaces seem to heal me

There’s a view we can’t miss
I wouldn’t dream of it
There’s a view we can’t miss
I wouldn’t dream of it

I was born to be wild and free
Traipsing the coast line of some craggy beach
Go on and tell ’em I’m in good company
Wild and free

DIVING DEEP

The concept of home has been something that I have thought a lot about over the last decade. It’s not just a physical space; instead it’s a near mythical land with powers to heal. Home is a place of recovery, our very own ICU that each of retreat to every day. This is an insane concept, but equally peculiar is that each of us rehab at our own unique center. How crazy is that!? Every one of us returns to our own distinct location for the same thing. Healing.

Kaley of De Joie does a fantastic job of exploring the concept of home. In the song Oslo we see two different homes. The first home is filled with the people she loves, but it is lacking. She has left it in search for something – Can you hear me say “I love you” from across the sea? Can you hear me whisper to you my dreams? We’re about to jump on a plane to the west coast. The second home is Oslo, which is also filled with people she loves, AND is a place where she finds healing – Well, the weather is fine here in Oslo. Go on and tell ’em I’m in good company. All these wide open spaces seem to heal me.

I really love how Kaley responds to the healing she receives when she finds home: She realizes she was born to be wild and free. This idea seems counterintuitive to me because before finding this new home Kaley was a wanderer, searching for home.. One could say that she was free to roam and be wild, but she did not feel that way.

However, when Kaley finds home, even though she is now tethered to a place (Oslo), she proclaims herself wild and free. How can we make sense of this?

It’s as if belonging to something or someone brings freedom while total independence produces turmoil. This is a thought worth sitting in, and for that I thank De Joie!

What do you think about home? What does home mean to you?

Sources
https://dejoiemusic.com/bio
https://www.jiosaavn.com/lyrics/oslo-lyrics/RwxYdhUIQ1A
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5oJYqPFbjnOksOFe7uOx9G?si=lU9yJgeQTVutw5Y2q_AR7A

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Kansas

You’ve Never Heard Of This Band Before

The Trek By Emersons Fall

I can almost guarantee you have never heard any music by Emersons Fall. They have 2 monthly listeners on Spotify and I know for a fact that I’m one of them. Their internet presence is essentially non-existent and googling their band name turns up nothing.

However, through some of extensive research I can tell you that Emersons Fall was a Wichita, Kansas duet made up of Ben Tyson and James Paul. The only album they released was their self titled album of 5 songs in 2011. Since then James Paul has gone on to form a new band with his brother and wife called En Power & Light. Ben Tyson, as far as I can tell, has moved on from music and now works as an engineer.

I discovered Emersons Fall while DJ-ing for the University radio station at Stephen F. Austin and instantly connected with their song The Trek. If you are like me back then I think you might really connect with this song. If not, I hope you enjoy it anyways. Lyrics and Commentary below.

LYRICS

Drop all your things get in the car
wherever we go we will go long and far
There are no rules here there are no holds bar

I’m leaving town I’m busting out
And I don’t know where I am gonna go
I’m all alone so ride with me
And we can just go together
The road is here
The skies are clear
but still I don’t know where I’m going

What we left behind now has begun to fade
I want to fall of the edge of this confusing game
And meet the unknown embrace it face to face

I’m leaving town I’m busting out
And I don’t know where I am gonna go
I’m all alone so ride with me
And we can just go together
The road is here
The skies are clear
but still I don’t know where I’m going

There’s no need to be waisting away time
Nothings (?????) by
All (??????) moving is you and I

Drop all your things get in the car
wherever we go we will go long and far
There are no rules here there are no holds bar

We’re leaving town we’re busting out
And I don’t know where we are gonna go
We’re not alone so ride with me
And we can just go together
The road is here
The skies are clear
but still I don’t know where I’m going

We’re leaving town we’re busting out
And I don’t know where we are gonna go
We’re not alone so ride with me
And we can just go together

We’re not alone

And we can just go together

COMMENTARY

In some of my spotlights I get to dig into the meaning of the songs, but in my research I found this old YouTube video that tells you exactly about what this song is about in their words. So I won’t waste our time pondering the original meaning. Instead, let’s dive into what I admire about the song.

I really like that the singing is just not quite in sync. It gives the song an aura of longing. Another aspect of the song that I really enjoy is how the lyrics portray a sense of discontentment and a sense of hope at the same time. I really admire how Emersons Fall were able to put those two contrasting ideas in the heart of this song.

I’d love to hear your thoughts. Does this song remind you of anyone? Does it take you back to a specific moment in your life?

SOURCES
http://web.archive.org/web/20130514221945/http://emersonsfall.com/
https://www.enpowerandlight.com/
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youtube.com