Songs We Love: Caleb Caudle, 'Empty Arms'
The North-Carolina-based artist has honed a sound that encompasses the wide expanse of America — as the best country rock always will.
In 2018, country rock will be 50 years old; that's according to most official histories, anyway, which mark the subgenre's beginnings with the release of two projects, the International Submarine Band's and ' . Why not celebrate a little early?, to be released in February, is reason to bust out your Nudie suit. "Empty Arms" is an instantly winning blend of fuzz and twang whose inventive arrangement fully honors the ode to sustaining love at its core. It's exactly the kind of solidly inventive blend of elements, serving a classic lyric, that Parsons willed to the world.
