Boy Golden - For Jimmy EP (2023) [Hi-Res]

On “Mountain Road,” Winnipeg’s Boy Golden tickles that urge in all of us to seek something new; to change our surroundings in the hopes that it might change us. Here we find the Church of Better Daze minister shedding his proverbial robes in the Blue Hills – a place personal to Boy Golden but existing in many other places and memories elsewhere – in search of the view from above.

As he sheds one style for another, Boy Golden’s sweet voice lifts us up and reminds us that it’s going to be okay even when things do change — even if you change. As the saying goes, Wherever you go, there you are. At the peak of “Mountain Road” we see it all clearly.

“I hope you listen to this song when you’re driving and think about all the people and events and stories that have brought you to where you are. There is no going back. Be in the moment. Take a deep breath. This is all yours to hold.” – Boy Golden

A genuine student of Townes Van Zandt and Willie Nelson as much as Dwight Yoakam and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Boy Golden surely crafts his own type and style. His philosophy mmight help us all to blur borders and old definitions of genres we thought we knew, like Steve Lacy or Justin Vernon do for Pop music. - Six Shooter Records