Americana singer-songwriter Kyle Harvey has come up with an old school song about heartbreak: Too Blue To Miss You. As he mentions in the lyrics, Numbing the pain with a stiff drink did not help, so he went to his art to get some release. His friend Oliver Bates Craven brought his fiddle again, supplying a comforting blanket around the vocals and sparse acoustic guitar notes.
Americana singer-songwriter Kyle Harvey is some trepidation if it would be wise to get on board on his new single Riverboats. He has just broken up with his lover, a hard rain is coming, his bags are packed, so it seems that he is good to go, telling himself that "there ain't sense in stalling". All signs are showing that he has had enough, but the pain is trying its best to stop him in his tracks. It is just him and his acoustic guitar plus a glorious but sad fiddle courtesy of Oliver Bates Craven.
Riverboats is a self-released single. Buy it from his website.
HCTF review of Anywhere But Here
Americana singer-songwriter Kyle Harvey may well have written this year's best lines about heartbreak on his new album Anywhere But Here: "Since you left me, I haven't moved you sweater. It still hangs on the back of the chair". The despair is almost palpable in Neon Lights Are Good For The Blues, one of the many songs on which he tries to let go, even going as far that his former lover will find happiness elsewhere.
All he needs is his voice and his guitar to conjure up emotions that listeners who are in the same predicament can relate to. Lucky for him, he is never lost for words, tapping into his poetry skills to describe himself being in a haze (This Round's On Me) and accepting the fact that finding closure is still a long way off (Love Song Without You In It).
