Taste Test: Johnson Crook write a letter to ‘Dear Me’
The country band explore their present and future with a new song.
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The long, winding road of life is spliced with countless forks, wide-swooping bends and even some dead-ends. The twists we take, or lack thereof, will forever determine what our present and future outcomes will be. We make the best with the hand we’ve been dealt. Toronto country quartet Johnson Crook meddle with time and their potential destinies through writing a letter to their future selves. With “Dear Me,” slathered with a mainstream tilt while remaining authentic and rooted among the rustic hills of tradition, frontman Noel Johnson and band members Nathan Crook (acoustic Guitar, mandolin, electric guitar), Jared Craig (acoustic Bass, electric bass) and Trevor Crook (drums) charge their way through rich sentiments about self and personal accountability. “Oh, dear future me, I gotta ask ya / Am I the man I’m supposed to be,” they propose the existential question from the get-go. Through a jaunty, windows-down drive-by, they question not only what their future selves have in store but the present state of things and how they could perhaps course correct things. Will they succeed? Only time has the answer.
“Dear Me” serves as the first taste of new music since 2017’s The Album release.
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