Rodney Rice knows just how to capture the fleeting glimmers of an emotional moment in life and turn them into songs that evoke our own feelings of despair and hope, loss and love. Rice delivers his lyrics with a knowing nod and wink and a twinkle of the eye to the difficulties we encounter in our daily lives, and creates memorable characters in his songs whose foibles remind us of folks we know. As he says, “Music is a common language that reaches all and brings people from worlds apart together.” Rice cannily matches music with lyrics, pairing a glimpse of a world turned upside down with a jaunty New Orleans jazz swing melody or an ode to young love with a lively country shuffle.
On his self-titled third album (due out May 19th), Rice travels over a wide terrain of emotion, from the death of beloved grandparents and the loss of a cherished pet to the grueling monotony of the road and the joyful celebration of marriage. He’s joined on the album by a host of stellar musicians: Dave Racine on drums, Dennis Crouch and Jack Lawrence on bass, Jeff Taylor and Micah Hulscher on keys, Steve Daly and Sean Thompson on guitars, Kirk Donovan on trumpet, and Sam Hoffman, Maureen Murphy, Kyshona Armstrong, and Nickie Conley. Drew Carroll produced Rodney Rice, which was recorded at Nashville’s the Bomb Shelter.
Today Glide is excited to premiere the video for the straight-ahead rocker and defiant road song “Get to Where I’m Going.” The rollicking country-rock tune finds Rice singing with his commanding, old soul vocals over a steady beat, spicy guitar flourishes, and the soulful touch of an organ. Maybe it’s his finely weathered vocals with a slight twang or the cowboy hat and denim pearl snap he dons in the video, but we get some nice traces of Billy Joe Shaver alongside more of a youthful energy. The tune comes to a grand conclusion with a damn fine guitar solo to take it on home before Rice hops in his truck to get where he’s going. The song, he says, is also about “trying to catch a break, hustling a music career, and bringing people up with music even when the situation may have you down.”
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