The Singles Bar: Tucker Riggleman & the Cheap Dates yearn for love with ‘Queen of Diamonds’
The band’s latest song packs on the ache.
Welcome to The Singles Bar, a review series focused on new single and song releases.
Sometimes love is just not meant to be, and you find yourself in a sticky situation. With their new song “Queen of Diamonds,” Tucker Riggleman & the Cheap Dates wander through the halls of unrequited love and discover nothing but fragments of their hearts. “I guess I was barking up the wrong tree,” sings Riggleman, his misery stitched around the edges.
Organ, courtesy of The Judds’ former player Lee Carroll, bubbles in the arrangement, laced with guitars swaying in the wind. “She’s a blooming lily, and I’m just a sticker bush / She’s a blinking button that I can’t seem to push,” yearns Riggleman. “How do you find something so free / An open mind, unusual to me…”
Riggleman’s voice is dusty, coated in the sort of ache you’d find in a classic country & western tune. The arrangement almost shimmers with teardrops. Drums gallop ever so gently, as though a team of horses are cresting the horizon. With its forlorn vocal performance, almost distant, “Queen of Diamonds” will surely linger in your brain long after it’s over.
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