Taste Test: Billy Raffoul muses on his life journey with ‘My Old Man’
The singer-songwriter’s latest is a heart-rending ballad.
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As you grow older, your entire worldview titles on its axis. Something changes deep inside your gut. With “My Old Man,” singer-songwriter-guitarist Billy Raffoul muses on his own journey and how his perspective has transformed over the last few years. Particularly, he explores relationships with fathers and father figures through a grainy, washed-out filter. His voice trembles in the darkness. “I’m older now, and life’s set in,” he quivers over a lone guitar. “And I realize how hard that is / I know that everyone’s got some regrets / But I can do a helluva lot worse than becoming my old man.” Regrets hang like cobwebs in his head, yet they don’t cloud his mental state. They simply cling there, and he forges ahead anyway. Time might be merciless, but he doesn’t have to let it affect him from living his life. And that’s the state of things.
