Wistful, colorful, and tastefully executed, experienced countryman Geoff Gibbons’s latest single ‘Morgantown’ is a pleasure to hear and contemplate along with its bittersweet story.
Based in the Canadian city of Vancouver, Geoff Gibbons is a singer and songwriter who specializes in authentic country and Americana, using timeless chord sequences, sweetly penned stories, along with cozy, low-flying beats to craft immediately charming and lovable songs.
‘Morgantown’ paints a story of a small-town love that wasn’t meant to be. Through delicately written lines Gibbons delivers a story of a character so large for the small town they live in, and a character who has nothing to do but live with loss, and this is carried over an infinitely warm instrumental that’s sweet and sorrowful. With a steady groove and the usual, country slide guitar croons, Geoffs’s electric guitar rhythmic strums are jangling and bustling alongside rich organs, all in support of his own, scruffy and ever-so-slightly gritty vocal delivery of the words. A seemingly ancient formula showcasing once again how it has easily passed the test of time, aided by Gibbon’s masterful songwriting and soulful storytelling.
‘Morgantown’ is warm and sweet like an embrace, but sad and emotional, making it a goodbye hug. An endlessly beautiful song, wonderfully written, performed, and produced.
