David James Allen: By Your Side

David James Allen: By Your Side   

“By Your Side” is the latest preview of Allen’s forthcoming album Jubilation Potpourri, following “Platform No. 12 (Old Friends),” which was added to Sirius XM’s North Americana and CBC Music’s Canadian Country playlists. Jubilation Potpourri is the follow-up to Allen’s 2023 album By The Summertime, described by The Big Takeover as, “another treasure trove for those who haven’t yet lost the belief that music can inspire a sense of wonder when looking at the world,” and which Quality Americana described as, “a throwback to sounds of the 1970s... David James Allen’s soft-spoken singing style leaves a lot of room for dynamics, and the instrumentation is carefully planned, yet feels spontaneous.”

Allen says“By Your Side”was originally an attempt to write a more straightforward country song, but he couldn’t stop himself from delving into deep, personal feelings. “I wrote ‘By Your Side’ shortly after ‘Platform No. 12 (Old Friends)’in the wake of getting laid off at work and being untethered from a day job for the first time in a long time,” he says. “As I got deeper into the process, it became clear that this was a more raw kind of song about love and companionship as a refuge during a time of burnout and self-doubt.Through thick and thin, we keep pushing onward and upward together and that’s really the heart of the song.

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