Ashes and Worn Boots

Country ballad with slow, lonesome 6/8 sway, mournful violin intro, acoustic guitar, and brushed drums; verse stays sparse and close, pre-chorus lifts with low harmony tension, chorus opens with stacked male vocals and a chantable title hook. Dark male lead vocal, cracked and intimate, with delayed harmony trails, a bowed-string swell into each refrain, and a dusty mix that feels wide, raw, and weathered., slow, vocal, violin, country, sad