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Released as a single in July, Zach Meadows’ ‘Three White Crosses’ now has a suitably poignant music video to accompany the song. An intoxicating blend of the brooding Americana of Chris Isaak and Springsteen’s quieter, more reflective moments, the song takes the listener on a dark, lonely road trip along the lost highways of America.
“Driven by the morning light, cold coffee and a Ritalin high,” he sings, reimagining the country road song as a melancholic slacker folk anthem. “I must have died for a moment, didn’t even know it.”
Like all the best road songs it’s a song about love, loss and distance and how we try to make sense of all these things driving alone in the dark sometimes.
“’Three White Crosses’ was a song inspired by my drives back and forth from the South to the East Coast, and one night in particular that I drove through to make it to my girlfriend at the time by the morning,” Meadows explains. “I was at a time in my life where I wasn’t quite sure of anything, and this video is meant to represent that feeling of uncertainty. I felt as if I was in a purgatory of my own making, just waiting for my life to move forward in some way. The story behind the video closely follows that idea, driving endlessly with no sense of direction.”
Watch the Ryan Hamblin directed video for ‘Three White Crosses’ exclusively on Holler below.
Born and raised in Florida, Zach Meadows ended up in Asheville in North Carolina where the landscapes and the easy-going Appalachian atmosphere seemed to infuse his songwriting with a reassuringly uncomplicated, laid back quality.
It was in Asheville that Gabe Lee came across Zach Meadows while he was out on tour with Molly Tuttle, and he became a makeshift mentor to the fledgling songwriter. Two years later the pair walked into Farmland - the same studio where Lee had recorded three of his four albums - and with the help of Alex Torrez and David Dorn, both long time Gabe Lee producers, they laid down the songs that captured the effortless country-folk sound that makes up Meadows new album, Road to Nowhere; named after The Road to Nowhere in Bryson City, North Carolina.
“It felt like an appropriate description of my life over the last five years, where I was sort of stumbling through my mid-twenties,” says Meadows. “This album is my attempt at approaching songwriting through more personal and honest means. Each song feels like a chapter of my life.”
‘Three White Crosses’ follows up his previous singles ‘Texas Two Step,’ ‘Highway to Birmingham,’ ‘Grace of God’ and ‘Cardinal Song,’ which all feature on the forthcoming album.
‘Three White Crosses’ is taken from the album Road To Nowhere due out on August 23rd via Torrez Music Group. Zach Meadows is out on tour in August and September with Cale Caudle and Jason Eady.
