Zach Top Does Slick Country Balladry Like Few Others on New Song ‘South of Sanity'
In the first verse, Top establishes that he's far from home, playing yet another gig on the rodeo circuit. This one's in Montana, while his lover, saying 'I love you' and crying over the phone, is 2,000 miles away, begging him to come back. But Top is due to walk onstage — now with a head full of drama. 'When we hung up she was talking leaving/Now how am I supposed to sing and play?' he sings, finding himself 'somewhere south of sanity/just north of insane.'
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'South of Sanity' follows Top's latest single 'Good Times & Tan Lines,' released in June. The Washington state native is currently on the road with Dierks Bentley's Broken Branches tour, and will play his own headlining dates on his Cold Beer & Country Music tour, beginning in September and running through November.
Ain't in It for My Health is Top's follow-up to his 2024 debut, Cold Beer & Country Music. In June, he delivered a sterling set at Telluride Bluegrass Festival that drew on his own bluegrass roots. 'This is on the Mount Rushmore of festivals,' Top told Rolling Stone following his set. 'You can sit there, play a show, and just look at the hills.'
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