Taste Test: Hayes Peebles is ‘Riding High’
The country upstart explores classic ’70s textures with his new road song.
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Such travelin’ tunes as Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” and Roger Miller’s “King of the Road” are essential to the country music tapestry. We all know what it feels like to have the wind kiss our cheeks and the pavement to spread forever ahead of us. There’s no other thrill quite like it. New York City troubadour Hayes Peebles adds another notch to the proverbial storytelling belt with his own wistful take of the highway. “Riding High,” penned on an exhaustive trek from Brooklyn down to Nashville, pours the yearning on thick, and the haze curls as silver-grey smoke rings in the dark. “Till summer, I’ll be riding high,” his voice fades up into his falsetto. It’s within such a plainspoken bedrock, coated with an unapologetically ’70s stone-cold country sheen, that Peebles gives a wonderfully enveloping performance.
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