Texan songwriting titan Ryan Hamilton returns with a spirit refreshing new album the subtle splendiferous, and Americana calling ‘Nowhere To Go But Everywhere’. Ryan has transcribed the ultimate break-up, find yourself, road trip release prior to aurally pulling over at heartaches late-night diner. ‘NTGBE’ is bathed in flickering neon, coffee refills and half-eaten cherry pie and times the album is so beautifully smooth it almost induces catatonia. Opener ‘Only A Dream’ rolls around comfortably in a Tom Petty duvet with Hamilton’s delicate Southern twang beckoning the listener to rest their ears for ten more minutes on the world’s most comfortable musical pillow. The pace steps up for a heel tapping ‘Oh No’ before the album’s first single ‘Jesus And John Lennon.’ The cut kicks off with “Na,na,na,na,na” before the Catholic church, Linda Lovelace and The Rolling Stones get ironically name-checked in a moreish sing-a-long that lands somewhere between Happy Days, Hozier and Ginger Wildheart’s ‘Daylight Hotel’. The ivory tinkling hoe-down moe-down ‘Out Of My League’ struts down the trophy wife highway while a poetic ‘Let’s Go Slow’ meanders through the relationship raindrops of self-doubt that tug at those oh so fragile heartstrings. Ryan takes to the pulpit for a Crowes-Esque sermon on the eyes closed, arms outstretched album standout ‘Can I Get An Amen’, amen brother amen. Stacey’s Mom heads to Geordie shore for the arm snapping shot sinking and anthemic single ‘Newcastle Charm’. A music hall ‘Southern Accents’ is followed by a shiny ‘We Gave It Hell’ before the wistful album closer ‘Pick Yourself Up’ completes this hair stroking, ice cream eating and whiskey sipping winner.
