By ALLI SHIEBER, Features Editor
Friday, August 25th Oklahoman Zach Bryan released his fifth album.
It is a self-titled album and has a few features on it. These features include The War and Treaty, Sierra Ferell, Kacey Musgraves and The Lumineers.
This album has 16 songs. I like that the first song on the album is a poem titled “Fears and Fridays.”
It is one of my favorites on the album both the poem and song of the same of the same title.
I also enjoyed the song “Overtime” on the album.
This song tells a story of wanting to make a name for yourself despite your family struggles and also wanting to find the person who you want to go on that journey with.
It is not just another country song.
Most of the songs on the albums are slower, which I usually am not a big fan of slower songs, but I quite enjoyed it.
My favorite song on the album is “Hey Driver” featuring The War and Treaty. This song is emotional, and I like how the first verse it’s just their voices no music.
The songs are also not like typical country songs about trucks, girls, being in love or heart broken. Most of the songs on the album have deeper meanings and don’t mention any of these things.
Another song with deeper meaning is “Tourniquet.” This song talks about taking care of loved ones and uses the metaphor tourniquet.
The last song on his album is called Oklahoman Son and talks about going back to Oklahoma and talks about his anticipation to go back in the first line, “When I get back to Oklahoma, I’ll be a little better off than I am right now.”
Ultimately though the song talks about regrets and how you can never change your roots.
The lyrics say, “You can’t hide where you’re from.” and “You’ll always be Oklahoman son.”
This is not the first time Bryan has mentioned Oklahoma in his songs. He has one popular song named Oklahome Smokeshow.
That song is not as deep as this one is. He also mentions Oklahoma in Summertime’s close which is also a song on his new album.