Love songs are about as old as, well, songs themselves. Initially, they were songs of devotion to a higher power, and then, with the arrival of the medieval troubadour, love songs became about honor and devotion. And if the rock and roll notion of the love song was all about getting the girl, Hudson Mueller reminds us of another aspect of the form—universal love.
His idea of love is a grace that we should afford to all, friend and stranger, family and lover, neighbour and new acquaintances alike. It is a force that brings us together and reminds us that, more than anything else, this is what binds mankind together, although we seem to have conveniently forgotten as we pursue more personal and greed-fueled goals.
It’s a message that he delivers over a blend of jangling, country groove, and melodic pop accessibility, superb harmonies and driving energy, pedal steel sweetness, and the sort of rhythms that can, and indeed should, be responsible for breakouts of bop and boogie, jump and jive.
Love is the key to everything. Love each other, love your home, your land, your family, and your country, but never at the expense of others. Everyone deserves love, and as the song rightly points out, “The more you give love, the more you get it.”
The Beatles had it right: Love is all you need. Hudson Mueller is just underlining their point in his own signature sound and doing so brilliantly.
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