Brian Fallon has written good songs, great songs in the course of his storied career with The Gaslight Anthem, Horrible Crowes and solo years; but The '59 Sound is different. It's a song of the rare calibre songwriters all hope to attain; it's a classic.
It didn't just capture a moment for Brian and his band, serving as the title track of their breakthrough second album, it's the elusive anthem recipe of old soul sorrow and youthful affirmation all wrapped up in just over three-minutes. You can't deliver this stuff to order, you can only be the talented vessel who channels it. No wonder Bruce Springsteen was dazzled by it and Brian Fallon along with the rest of us. And in typical lightning-in-a-bottle fashion, the music came fast. But before that there was a guitar amp.
