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Known as a songwriter for his hits for Drake White, Cole Swindell, Keith Urban, Tyler Hubbard, Ruston Kelly, Darius Rucker and Tyler Farr among others and as a member of multi-Platinum selling band Old Dominion, it was no surprise when Brad Tursi's first solo album, Parallel Love, was a measured collection of beautifully succinct snapshots of twentieth century life that felt like late night, cold beer conversations with an old friend.
A batch of songs that had been written over the past 10 years, Tursi produced the entire project with Ben West and Marc Scibilia co-producing select tracks, and features co-writes with Dan Isbell, Jessi Alexander and Matt Jenkins among others.
Co-written with Ben West and Stephen Wilson Jr., 'Church Bells and Train Whistles' is a song about an adventurous soul caught between the disparate pulls of the open road and the front porch back home, but finding a hard won, equally fulfilling balance of the two.
"I'm a little bit church bell and train whistle / Somewhere right in the middle of small town settling down and hitting the road," he sings as the song unfurls gently around him. "Don’t you know that I love the sound of a city but I take that wheat field with me around in this suitcase I call my soul."
Today, Brad Tursi shares the suitably evocative video for the song, shot on film and directed by Jimmy Fisco, also known for the Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert and Jon Randall Marfa Tapes cut 'Am I Right or Amarillo'.
"I think the songs on Parallel Lives are abstractions of real feelings, but everyone comes to them in very different ways," Tursi explains about the album. "So when it was time to make a video, I wanted something that gave people room to see their own story, too. I love the juxtaposition, the use of motion and the idea we are all so many things."
Watch the video for 'Church Bells and Train Whistles' below.
Parallel Lives is out now through Sony Music Entertainment
