Saturday 4th April, 2021
Rusty Gear has generated over 900,000 Spotify streams, with the country music artist enjoying quite a few success stories, including, Tequila Won’t Solve Your Problems, Won’t Forget (#1 on Europe’s Hotdisc Top 40) and Wondering Why(# 51 on Billboard’s Country Breakout Chart in the US). Out And Runnin is the latest single from the American country singer-songwriter.
With opening lines like, Outside the centre city bypass, they roll the sidewalks up at night / It’s a short ride down to Southside, you come to drink and dance and fight, who can resist? The new track combines blues-infused country with a particular attitude that inadvertently or not reveals the intersection of society with culture, and in this case, that’s, of course, music.
The new track features Rusty on vocals and slide guitar and esteemed musicians from the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Clayton Ivey on keys, Ed Green on drums and David Hood on bass. The track also features the background vocals of Camille Rae from emerging US act Calamity Jane. Produced by Tony Sarno, who also played guitar on the new release, Out And Runnin Round attempts to capture all freewheeling, devil-may-care aspect of a night on the town, the soundtrack proving a suitable foundation for lines such as, We got the fury and the sound its where we can be found / we got to take it when we can and listen to the band.
Out And Runnin Round is also about transcending the ever-present pressures of life for a singular event—a big night, with that quintessential of all American popular music styles, country, front and centre. Amid the traditional sonic bedrock, several other must-have ingredients are present, layers of barroom conjuring guitar lines, providing a bold, vibrant if not typical accompaniment, for one.
This track persuades by its allegiance to the style, a country stomper that’s a little more conventional than some of Rusty’s previous releases but no less suggestive.