Premiere: Terry Ohms releases new video, ‘Gentlemen Caller’
The musician issues a new video in preparation for this eighth studio record.
Wes MacDonald is a hypnotic creature, slithering between grimy garage-rock and blues. You never know quite what to expect. Known professionally as Terry Ohms, a moniker carrying a certain rootsiness to it, MacDonald has notched eight studio records, including his brand new one called Smooth Sailing Forever, a magnetic and moody lineup completely recorded in quarantine. It’s certainly par for the course these days, but songs like “Gentlemen Caller,” mangling musicality that really knocks you for a loop, firmly plant in uncertain emotional turmoil.
“I heard you had a gentleman caller / One of those backwoods injury lawyers / He gave you a tiger cub and got you in the country club,” his lyrics paint a cinematic scene. His voice is jagged, piercing the skin even, but evenso, there’s a soothing quality about him. He drives you forward into a cloud of story smoke and leaves you to breathe it in for yourself.
He continues, “And a swank uptown apartment and totally free city wide parking / And a whole lotta nice things that don’t amount to much / You heard I got caught up in jazz, yea / It helps me relax and not dwell on the past.”
The visual, premiering today, cobbles together various archival footage.
Smooth Sailing Forever drops Friday (August 14) on Cornelius Chapel Records.
Watch below:
