Feeling just about as smooth as a breeze brushing the tall grass, Tim Raybon’s “Can’t Get Away from This Broken Heart” starts as beautifully as it concludes, strutting forth to a guitar melody that will only grow warmer as we press on. The mix is crisp and clean, and well before Raybon has started to sing it’s pretty obvious we’re going to be in for quite the stirring offering from his eponymous band in this performance. There’s a reflectiveness to the intro we discover shortly after pressing the play button on “Can’t Get Away from This Broken Heart” that you won’t be able to shake no matter how many times you hear the song; it’s in the very spirit of the music, and the man who inspired it made sure to preserve this element of his new single at all costs.
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The number one reason to check out anything by Tim Raybon is his singing voice, which is becoming one of my favorites to have risen out of obscurity in 2023. Country music doesn’t have enough players who care about the delicate tonal conveyances the old guard once relied on when making a powerful slow song, but that could be why this particular singer/songwriter is so exciting to find right now. He’s representing a dying breed within the industry today, and whether he’s aware of it or not, he’s carrying on a torch that some critics (and way too many fans) had feared might have been extinguished as long as two decades ago. That’s not the case, and there’s no arguing it in a song like this one.
This string-based harmony in “Can’t Get Away from This Broken Heart” isn’t just a backbone to the vocal Raybon is putting down from the helm of the ship; it’s an extension of the lyrical mood in more ways than one. It creates the pastoral setting which my man occupies with as colorful a poetic picture as he can create, and if he’s this adept at such an early point in his career, I have to wonder how good he’s going to be after getting a few more miles under his belt in the next year or two. He’s already got a lot of eyes on his music, but if he can cultivate a following on the live circuit, he’s going to become an unstoppable force a lot sooner than later.
Tim Raybon has a natural ability he isn’t shy about showing off in “Can’t Get Away from This Broken Heart.” His songwriting has always been at the forefront of the band’s hits, having written nearly all the Tim Raybon Band’s previous chart-toppers. For this reason, he needs to be near the top of every country and bluegrass music aficionado’s watch list.
Chadwick Easton