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Single Review: Albert Cummings “Meet the Man”

Against the shadows, Albert Cummings is standing in the lone ray of light in his music video for “Meet the Man,” and the symbolism of this expression isn’t hard to interpret. In a genre that has contemporarily slid into commerciality a little more each year for the better part of the last two decades, Cummings wants to be a reminder of what country music can still be, even if it is shrouded in an uncomfortable darkness right now. His is quite a bold statement to make, but here, it feels rather appropriate coming out of his sultry country vocal.

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“Meet the Man” is as simple as they come instrumentally, with the guitar playing as much of a key role in the track itself as it does slung across Cummings’ back in the music video for the song, and I don’t think this player needed anything more to tell his story. There’s a comfortability this guy has with the silence he’s cutting into that is brooding on multiple levels, to such an extent, I might add, that you could view it as emotionally powerful for a couple of different reasons. The burden on his mind weighs heavy, and this translates into one of the more human performances I’ve heard from a country player in a while.

 

 

Country music has a serious voice that isn’t buried in a barrage of meaningless bells and whistles in the new single and music video “Meet the Man,” and though I have gradually become a little harder to please than a lot of followers in this scene, Albert Cummings is exactly the kind of melodic cowboy vocalist that I can get into when I need my Nashville fix. The plasticity of the big city, major label artists in this genre isn’t a factor in “Meet the Man” – in all honesty, this song is everything its title suggests it should be.

 

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