Taste Test: Montgomery & the Phoenix Holding Co. pick fresh memories of ‘Dirt Road Dandelion’
The Kentucky country-rock band wax nostalgic for young love on a new song.
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We’ve all got that first love that hangs on our tongue like the twangy, dripping sweetness of the summer’s strawberry harvest. Even though it may have crashed and burned, as many young loves often do, the flood of memories wash up and over the senses in colorful waves. A country-rock collective of Pikeville, Kentucky musicians, Montgomery & the Phoenix Holding Co. take a leisurely stroll back through time to relive such an intoxicating whirlwind romance. With “Dirt Road Dandelion,” the John Montgomery-led band firmly root the song somewhere between Brooks & Dunn’s “Red Dirt Road” and Deanna Carter’s “Strawberry Wine,” allowing their emotions to be carried away as dandelion seeds finding flight in the late evening breeze. Time is a fervently fleeting mistress, and Montgomery’s vocals are laced with heavy nostalgia and bittersweet melancholy. “I was so afraid to touch you / ‘Cause you may drift away,” he sings, both in sorrow and resignation.
“Dirt Road Dandelion” kick starts the band’s self-titled debut album, out everywhere now.
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