Corner of My Mind comes on Rusty Reid’s latest full-length release, Bayou Line. Featuring world-class players from Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, and as far as Brazil and Germany, The song’s sound and production are of pristine quality, with sharp songwriting and a soft, immersive sound that will be hard to forget.
Genre-hopping, Seattle-based singer-songwriter Rusty Reid is a singer/songwriter whose sound on Corner of My Mind can be summed up as folk-ish, with a healthy dose of country music’s traditional upbeat sensibilities. The song’s philosophical lyrics are delivered in an understated manner from Reid’s relatable, restrained vocal style, with which I could draw parallels with Richard Hawley, who I could easily envision as Rusty Reid’s British counterpart.
The sound of Corner of My Mind is warm and chill, dominated by a twangy electric guitar that plays one tasty lick after the other to accompany Rusty Reid’s voice. The beat is minimal, consistent and driving, and with the song’s familiar-sounding progressions, the song’s listening experience is exceedingly easygoing and rewarding.
Corner of My Mind, just like the entirety of Bayou Line, should be present on the listening radars of lovers of country, folk, and soft rock, and all similar genres. This song’s deceptively simple sound is hard to categorize, but its quality makes any categorization irrelevant. A crisp piece of music Seattle’s own Rusty Reid.
