“Miles Ahead, Miles Behind” off Skywriting by Zachary Cale.

Zachary Cale calls on the listener to “raise up the white flag” on his latest album Skywriting. There’s a sense of resignation and defeat, combined with hard scrabble fight, in the countrified rock n roll of the Brooklyn musician.

Shades of a drawl that lives in a border town between here and there. Shades of storytelling heroes like Petty or Springsteen. Cale loves to draw out his subjects with the spare imagery and lyricism proper to the no-frills poetry of a six-stringer.

On our highlighted track and leadoff number “Miles Ahead, Miles Behind” the singer-songwriter kicks off his album like a true epic, in media res, a journey halfway started and no end in sight.

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