Radney Foster – “Revival”

by CM Wilcox

With the lead single from his upcoming album of the same name, singer-songwriter Radney Foster celebrates moments of great promise and renewal, moments shot through with love and hope for a better tomorrow.

There’s seemingly precious little that doesn’t fit with this general theme: Foster finds room for references to baptism, the transformative power of music, Jerusalem, Tiananmen Square, how much he loves his girl, and more. While the way Foster flits from one thing to the next does seem a bit unfocused–the sudden personalization in the “my miracle moment was giving you my heart” line is particularly jarring – the expansive quality of the lyric is actually well matched to the unrestricted feel of the arrangement, which seems to reach for the heavens even as it remains grounded in a polished Texas rock aesthetic.

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