Reid Parsons – Get Out Of Bed (2025)
Hailing from Moretown, Vermont, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Reid Parsons has released another single, ‘Get Out of Bed’, in anticipation of the forthcoming album Back to Back. Parsons released EPs in 2018 and 2021, both of which fuse country, jazz, and folk into something one might generally think of as blue-eyed soul. Her new album is due out on April 25, 2025.
Parsons released the title track as the first single, a more jazz-oriented tune about the simple aspects of intimacy that can be defined between two people, such as sleeping back-to-back. In ‘Get Out of Bed’, she takes a deeper soul approach, incorporating trumpets and a wonderful trumpet break early on in the song. True to its title, the song prods the listener to get going with the day and stop moping around. Parsons says, “This is a song that I wrote as a tool to dig myself out of the thick blanket of melancholia and self-pity that sometimes holds me down.”
As such, the song gains momentum as it progresses along its five-minute and 15-second length. The time makes it a little longer than your standard three-to-four-minute pop song, but not a moment is wasted on this number. From the opening guitar arpeggiation, the snappy drums, and mellow trumpets, this song grabs your attention and keeps it to the end. The trumpet solo near the beginning is a wonderful way to diversify the tone, as it’s not often heard outside of jazz, but what really drives up the intensity of the song is the Hammond organ. It enters under the trumpet and has a killer solo near the end, ratcheting it up until dropping the dynamic for a chorus featuring just voice and guitar. Then the whole band, including trumpet and electric guitar, cuts loose on the final chorus.
‘Get Out of Bed’ is a beautifully recorded number with a dynamic range and building intensity that is not often heard. We are indeed curious to hear the album when it comes out.
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