When do we get some straight ahead roots rock? All this folky singer-songwriter stuff is all well and very good, but sometimes we’d like to just have some regular rock song with, oh, guitars and keys and drums and words about love that’s not working out so well and oh goodness, who knows, driving away as a metaphor for freedom. Could we have some of that?
Yes.
The fourth single from Greg Loftus’ latest album ‘No Kings In The Wild‘ is a refreshing tonic for the heart which desires nothing more than to be able to tap along on the steering wheel. It’s a song that is proud to show its Eighties Springsteen roots, as it tackles with the knotty problems of convincing another person that one’s love is strong and true and…most importantly…all for them.
He may hail from the Northeast of the USA , but Greg Loftus spent the better half of the last decade in Austin, TX honing his songwriting skills and fronting the alt-country band Carpetbagger, sharing the stage with admired heavyweights like Mike Cooley of Drive-By Truckers, Shakey Graves, and Mike and the Moonpies. A level of weariness with the life of a musician led to a move back home to Cape Cod, MA, in 2017 and a shift of focus to his custom furniture and woodworking business: Narrowland Woodworks and Design. And then came Covid and it seemed like the time was right to get out those old songs and hone his musical craft, and, as night follows day we get to his third release in the last four years – ‘No Kings In The Wild.‘
