If a tumbleweed ever had a soundtrack, it might sound a lot like “Sept You” from the Rick Lee Vinson Group.
There’s something about this latest single that feels like watching a high-noon standoff between independence and love. The song simultaneously hollers from the top of a mountain and whispers across the plains. Rick Lee Vinson, the composer, obviously carried this song on his back like it’s a bag full of lightning bolts, while Larry Levinsohn, the lyricist, threaded the verbal needle between defiance and devotion with surprising precision.
At its core, “Sept You” feels like a one-sided conversation delivered to a mirror, but it’s not your usual anthem for the lone wolf. Instead, it’s more like the inner monologue of someone who’s fiercely self-sufficient, until that one person (you know who) shows up and quietly rearranges their whole universe. The narrator claims to walk against the grain, bending speed limits and disregarding dotted lines, yet there remains that singular gravitational force – a loved one’s voice keeping them in orbit.
Sonically, it’s classic country-rock wearing a jacket woven from folk tunes. It doesn’t feel like it’s trying too hard, but it doesn’t feel lazy either. Rick and Larry have crafted a soundscape where the guitar chimes like wind over a field, and the percussion could almost be mistaken for the pulse of a restless soul.
Here’s the thing: it’s not just about love, it’s about control—or the surrender of it. There’s an ironic vulnerability in the line about being a “one-man band.” Even the unshakable need someone sometimes.
Somehow, in this dance between wanting to blaze your own trail and realizing you don’t mind having someone alongside you, the Rick Lee Vinson Group captures the poetry lurking in contradictions.
Bottom line? Love’ll strip you bare, even while you’re wielding all your rugged independence.
Now, would Socrates have listened to this while sipping hemlock? Probably not, but who knows?
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