Taste Test: Sam Johnson finds silver lining in hopeless romanticism with ‘Trip on Gold’
The folksy singer-songwriter confronts his unlucky streak in love with a new song.
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Relationships are as silky and impermanent as spider webs. One good summer rain is enough to tear the beauteous cathedral from its reaches and cast all inhabitants to the four winds. Even knowing this, folksy singer-songwriter Sam Johnson weathers the emotional hurricane anyway. “Trip of Gold” witnesses the musician confronting his hopeless romanticism with an eye of cheery optimism and a facade that’s both playful and buried beneath melancholy. “I never had much luck in love / But I always had a way with words,” he sings, noting how quickly and easily he falls back into love. His rebounds are as a boomerang shooting across the baby blue sky and back again. The echos of the past follow him around, too, pinging to and fro in time with the chewy, front-porch-picked groove. He ultimately realizes he wants much more than a fling, but his unconcern deceives him and he simply plunges back into the next adventure. For now, at least.
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