Gentle as a breeze brushing the tall grass in the springtime, Jarret Forrester’s “Tonight” starts off as beautifully as it concludes, strutting forth to a peaceful guitar melody that will only grow warmer as we press on. The mix is crisp and clean, and well before Forrester has started to sing it’s pretty obvious we’re going to be in for quite the romantic ballad in this performance. There’s a reflectiveness to the intro we discover shortly after pressing the play button on “Tonight” that you won’t be able to shake no matter how many times you hear the song; it’s in the very spirit of the music, and the man who inspired it made sure to preserve this element of his new single at all costs.

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The number one reason to check out anything by Jarret Forrester is his singing voice, which is absolutely becoming one of my favorites to have risen out of obscurity in the past year. Country music doesn’t have enough players who care about the delicate tonal conveyances the old guard once relied on when making a powerful slow song, but that could be why this particular singer/songwriter is so exciting to find right now. He’s representing a dying breed within the industry today, and whether he’s aware of it or not, he’s carrying on a torch that some critics (and way too many fans) had feared might have been extinguished as long as two decades ago. That’s not the case, and there’s no arguing it in a song like this one.

This guitar-based harmony in “Tonight” isn’t just a backbone to the vocal Forrester is putting down from the helm of the ship; it’s an extension of the lyrical mood in more ways than one. It creates the pastoral setting which my man occupies with as colorful a poetic picture as he can create, and if he’s this adept at such an early point in his career, I really have to wonder how good he’s going to be after getting another album under his belt in the next year or two. He’s already got a lot of eyes on his music, but if he can cultivate a following on the live circuit, he’s going to become an unstoppable young gun sooner than later.

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I hadn’t heard much of Jarret Forester’s work before stumbling across his 2020 greenhorn LP Songs I Wrote For You, but tracks like this one are going to keep me in his camp for some time to come. He’s got a natural ability he isn’t shy about showing off in “Tonight,” and if he steers clear of the arrogance that brings a lot of talented country singers down before their prime, that ability is only going to get sharper with each song he stamps his name on. It’s still very soon to know what his complete emotional capacity as a songwriter will eventually look like, but as of this moment, he needs to be near the top of every country music aficionado’s watch-list.

John McCall

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