From his brand new album The Champion, the unmistakable folk vocalist and songwriter Zachary Campos launches his latest single Traveling – a brief and beautiful ode to the sheer gratitude and love for a life spent making music and embracing time with family.
Keeping things simple and honest as ever, Traveling follows an easy back-and-forth acoustic guitar strum, and Zachary’s ever smooth and hypnotic vocal depth, through lyrics that literally detail a trip down to San Jose with family and friends, to record a brand new project.
Heavily inspired by the Johnny Cash album American IV: The Man Comes Around, as well as by Johnny’s autobiography Cash, Traveling is a short and sweet declaration of pure inner peace and satisfaction. It’s an intimate yet accessible folk original, which in its brightness and lyrical positivity, naturally reminds listeners to appreciate their own blessings, and the little things that make life worth living.
Just fifty-three seconds in full but perhaps his catchiest ditty to date, Traveling rises and falls like waves of simple calm and colour. The release emerges complete with a live performance video, and a brilliantly quirky and memorable closing line – within which Zachary’s voice achieves a perfectly low depth; wonderfully akin to the great and late Johnny Cash himself.
“And I really love to talk” is a comical and fitting end to the short but likable experience of Traveling, but the song itself actually makes for one more welcomed chapter in the bigger project at work. The new album The Champion is part three of the three-part arc combining The Underdog album, The Challenger EP, and this latest release. The stories all connect the dots as to the personal experience of becoming a father to his daughter Penelope, and the music and lyrics all consistently shine light on the wonders and the impact of this journey on our protagonist and leading artist.
