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Review-Tales from the Road: Wyatt Flores Shares Life Lessons with the World

Review-Tales from the Road: Wyatt Flores Shares Life Lessons with the World

Mady Goins

t’s been nearly a year since Wyatt Flores hit the road.

“I’ve learned more in the last 11 months than I could have ever imagined with success, heartbreak, and failure. It’s all a part of the journey,” Flores said. 

His new EP, Life Lessons is a compilation of tales from being a 20-something growing into himself in a 18-passenger van next to some of his best friends.

“People say ‘oh my god you're so lucky, you get to be on stage in front of thousands of people’. But I wanted to show people what it’s like to be in the van,” Flores said on Tiktok live on the eve of the release. 

“Good morning son, I hope you guys are on the road. Just calling to check on you and see where you’re at. I love you,” is the first sound you’ll hear on the opening track “Orange Bottles”. An archival voicemail that’s surely one of many, setting the stage for a harsh look at reality being a young man chasing dreams wherever they’ll take him.

John Calvin Abney: Tourist

John Calvin Abney: Tourist

Phillip Ring

What do you say when the word goes by through a window? How do you talk about home when the ground always seems to be shifting under your feet? John Calvin Abney answers this throughout the narrative weaved on Tourist. With this album, you get the feeling of going home to the same landscape and piece of nostalgia, but there is also a layer of deja vu or perhaps a sensation of the uncanny valley. Nothing is different, yet somehow nothing is the same. Also an expression of a life lived passing through towns from one stop to the next. Two themes somehow juxtapose to a single sentiment that’s difficult to put into words, unless you're John Calvin Abney, who somehow knows exactly how to do just that.