Taste Test: Christian Parker serves up a smokey wistful tale in ‘Every Passing Mile’

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Opening with haunting guitar sounds, Christian Parker’s “Every Passing Mile” carefully settles in to a melodic rhythmic journey. The guitar fingerstyle is complex and beautiful, painting a picture of soft cloudlike wisps emanating from the vocals. The song is a story of a man making his way down the road, haunted by the image of a woman in white. “I have a picture/I carry in my bag/No one can see her/Her words keep coming back” Parker sings softly. His voice is calm and entrancing, but with an undercurrent of unease, perfectly echoing the temptation that the man feels to return to the woman. The lyrics and the instrumentals combine to entice you to slip ever deeper under its spell, and the end result is a smokey, beautiful and haunting song that you won’t be able to shake off. Ultimately, the listener will have to uncover the meaning of “Every Passing Mile” for themselves.

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