Randy Lee Riviere – “Just One More Time”
Americana Highways presents this premiere of Randy Lee Riviere’s song “Just One More Time” from his recently released album Blues Sky. Blues Sky was produced and mixed by Kevin McKendree at The Rock House in Franklin, Tennessee.
“Just One More Time” is Randy Lee Riviere on acoustic guitars and vocals; Kevin McKendree on electric guitars, keyboards, and vocals; Kenneth Blevins on drums; David Santos on bass; and Ann, Freda and Regina McCrary on vocals.
The landscapes and riverscapes in the video are utterly breathtaking. The layers of meaning in the songwriting for our lives, our loves, and the natural world itself, will have this song compelling you into thoughtful repose. “Can I see you just one more time?” is a question that touches the very heart of it all. As Randy says:
I think this song could maybe go in three different directions. One, it’s a love song. About someone that got lost in traffic on roads headed to someplace else. But eventually you begin looking ahead for what you left behind. You try to find a road back, but it becomes increasingly difficult to find the way. You do finally find that way, but you wonder if it truly is impossible to cross that Rubicon to get there … ‘just one more time’.
A second might be that of an artist, someone who dramatically misses ‘the band’. The one place where you could express or release the contents of your soul. But Intertwined in the machinery of your ‘other journey’ you face the inevitability (‘push fate aside’) of your place in your current and seemingly endless future alongside secular fellow travelers. But you desperately long to go back to what you left behind … but that ‘river is so wide.’
A third is a simple love of the landscape of your formative years. The vast, endless prairie full of green grass, wildflowers and wildlife. The huge oak trees with crooked arms. The scale of the ground with a nonexistence of a human footprint. You just long for that place, but it really is impossible to get back to. Those fields are now covered with houses, vandalized by dirt bikes, modularized with human development and full of people bitching when bears get in their garbage. Landscape values are gone and there is no going back. The ‘river is too wide’.
I often use landscape-oriented metaphor in my songs. It just shows up. I was trained and worked at protecting and restoring the land … generally in remnants of what was once there. It was a difficult and often futile effort, but there were some success stories that kept me moving forward. These processes are really important in my songwriting. – Randy Lee Riviere
And a quote about the video:
I used the Rotor Video program to create and modify these videos,” says producer/director Dawn Riviere about the “Just One More Time” video.” “The content is a combination of stills and videos Randy and I have taken from Tennessee to Montana to Washington State. Some of Rotor’s content, and include a couple shots of Randy from the recent Jeff Fasano photo shoot. – Dawn Riviere
Listen and enjoy. Find the music here: https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0CKWRTHX4?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_KOcI170eg233jQIREbqVLOHEa
Read thought our review of the album here: REVIEW: Randy Lee Riviere Blues Sky
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