Reba is a nice ride. It starts out all leisurely Sunday drive through familiar country roads. We start up the hill that leads us back home, admiring the familiar views of the valley below, when all of a sudden, wait a minute, did we take a wrong turn somewhere? This road is a little bumpy. Maybe we should just turn around and go back. Then things smooth out and we are like, “yeah, let’s see where this strange road takes us!” The strange road heads skyward, through a lot of nice atmospheric changes, til we are floating in space. We gladly float weightless among stars, comets, planets and other odd extra-terrestrial entities for awhile until earth’s gravity begins pulling us back down. I guess the only way back is a fun and exciting ride through a vortex of crazy lights and sounds. Suddenly we are back in earth’s atmosphere but still in unfamiliar territory. This looks sort of like a place I’ve seen, but I’m not sure where. Well, we are cruising along nicely anyway. There is still gas in the car and a we have set a nice pace. Maybe if we just keep driving, we will happen upon a familiar landmark soo…And now we’re suddenly walking! I have no idea where the car went or how it happened, but it feels great! Let’s make it a power walk and strut our stuff!
Seriously though, Walk Away kind of smacks you upside the head out of nowhere, in a good way! Knowing Reba was almost done, I check on the time and its at less than 30 seconds with no signs of slowing down. Then 20 seconds, 10…I’m like, is there an error here? How is Walk Away coming from this in mere seconds? Then, boom, there it is. I really liked the last 20-30 seconds; Trey strikes the Simple chord but instead of starting it there, they extend the jam out just a few more seconds with that rocking rhythym before slowing down and going into Simple.
The Simple is ok. A little sloppy at the beginning, I think because they weren’t ready fully ready to start it yet. Nice though. I like Simple for its mix of silly and pretty.
Albuquerque is well placed for cool down and readjustment.