The Red Clay Strays – Made by These Moments (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

The Red Clay Strays – Made by These Moments (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:10 minutes | 869 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Red Clay Strays – RCA Records

Made by These Moments is the second studio album from Mobile, Alabama natives The Red Clay Strays, and the band’s debut album on RCA Records. This collection celebrates all the incredible moments that have defined the band’s fast-rising success. Consisting of Brandon Coleman (lead vocals, guitar), Drew Nix (electric guitar, vocals, harmonica), Zach Rishel (electric guitar), Andrew Bishop (bass), and John Hall (drums), The Red Clay Strays made this record in Nashville with producer Dave Cobb at his studio, Georgia Mae.The spirit of Lynyrd Skynyrd—especially their affection for Southern soul music—lives on in the Red Clay Strays. The Mobile, Alabama, band’s 2022 debut, Moment of Truth displayed enough potential to bring on in-demand producer Dave Cobb for its follow-up, Made by These Moments; tracked in Cobb’s Savannah, Georgia studio, the sound is carefully balanced and clear. The band’s music is anchored by the soul-shouting vocals of Brandon Coleman, whose tight vibrato can take on a crying quality that adds pathos to these songs of pain, doubt and hope for redemption. In a power ballad like “No One Else Like Me,” he describes himself and his mission: “I’m a broken writer, I’m a restless fighter, and I’m looking for a little hope/ I’m a shadowed thinker, I’m a one-eyed blinker at the end of his rope/ I’m a dead man walking, I’m a preacher talking about love and how to be free.” Of course, this being Southern rock there’s a bit of the devil in these boys. In “Ramblin'” a story that goes the whole way back to Robert Johnson’s blues, Coleman, Drew Nix (guitar and vocals), Zach Rishel (guitar), Andrew Bishop (bass), and John W. Hall (drums) crank up the tempos and fuzzy guitar effects and rock out. There are also moments when the moody shadows of the Allman Brothers cross a tune, like in “Devil in My Ear,” where Coleman concludes, “Depression and anxiety/ I can’t shake the grip that they got on me/ I know the devil’s gotten in my brain.” Near the end of the album, Red Clay Strays unexpectedly cross over into Contemporary Christian Music as in the hand clap and slide guitar rave up, “On My Knees,” where they repeatedly emphasize that they, “Praise The Lord, for bringing me peace.” And on closer “God Does,” Coleman fervently sings, “Wherever I’m lacking/ It’s he who makes me whole/ Shining through the darkness/ Cleaning out my soul,” mixing CCM and Southern rock into an original sound. – Robert Baird

Tracklist:

1-01. The Red Clay Strays – Disaster (04:15)
1-02. The Red Clay Strays – Wasting Time (03:30)
1-03. The Red Clay Strays – Wanna Be Loved (03:37)
1-04. The Red Clay Strays – No One Else Like Me (04:17)
1-05. The Red Clay Strays – Ramblin’ (02:32)
1-06. The Red Clay Strays – Drowning (04:48)
1-07. The Red Clay Strays – Devil In My Ear (03:52)
1-08. The Red Clay Strays – I’m Still Fine (03:52)
1-09. The Red Clay Strays – On My Knees (03:24)
1-10. The Red Clay Strays – Moments (04:18)
1-11. The Red Clay Strays – God Does (03:41)

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