Song Review/ Acoustic Rock : Eddie Cohn’s ‘Weight of the World’
Eddie Cohn is a singer-songwriter with a remarkable vocation. His music starts from a deep place, an authentic experience of emotion. And he doesn’t dwell on it, he flows from it, presenting a landscape of processing and understanding it. His latest release is ‘Weight of the World’, a track that blends soft spaces with harder more emphatic sonic material to create a folk rock track.
The intimacy of the theme and the story behind it is introduced with rustic folk and warm acoustics. But it grows, it builds into a passionate burst of bustling classic rock with blues and folk fringes. It’s a song about a difficult love, an unrequited experience that feels heavy. However, there are moments of liberation, freedom from this feeling, a resolve to get past it and leave it all behind.
The vocals are so bold. And when needed, they soften just as much. This effortless fluidity and versatility helps us enjoy and shift between the realities that he poses as he does, as it is in his mind. The whole thing feels like a burning rock tattoo that is seared on the mind. Listen Now!
