Ty's FIRST 5 - Start With These New Songs 1/29/21

I’ve spent the last week before my first daughter arrives in the world compiling the songs that best-represent MUSIC. I’ve had suggestions pouring in from people all around the world, who listen to The Ty Bentli Show on Apple Music, every day.

Up until next week, Friday remains the most-exciting day for me - cuz: New Music! There are over 100 new songs that landed on my playlist as they dropped on Apple Music, this week. I’ve listened to the big cuts, the deep cuts, and a ton of newbies and indie artists.

Rather than spending the literal hours it takes to find the music you’d want to share with your friends, I did the work. Let’s GO!

Here are the FIRST 5 new songs I recommend you listen to, this week…

“La Bamba” - Jake Hoot ft. Ricky Duran

I try to pick songs based on the knowledge that once you hear them and love them, you’ll dig further and come in contact with more. That’s the case with this cut. I LOVE the song I’m using to guide you toward Jake Hoot’s new project, Love Out Of Time, but I am hoping you hit play & it carries you all the way through his kickass new EP - especially cuz it wraps with The Voice champ, Jake, teamed up with the woman who turned her chair (the only chair turn) in the blind audition. Kelly Clarkson joins him for “I Would’ve Loved You”

As we approach the Day the Music Died (February 3), and the 62nd anniversary of the ill-fated crash that took 3 of the biggest legends in music, Jake releases a song that I knew every word to before I even knew the words weren’t the same as the predominant language surrounding mini-me in Iowa (the very state where this plane would meet its fate). The fact that Ritchie Valens was even on that flight was based on the results of a coin toss. Buddy Holly also talked his bassist, Waylon Jennings, into riding the buses to their next show so that the Big Bopper (who was extremely sick) could be hurried into a warm hotel room before their next performance.

Jake’s channeling of one of the greatest songs of all time could’ve been as ill-fated as that flight. How do you touch “La Bamba” - I believe the secret is the authentic influences of Jake’s childhood, his appreciation for music…and the fact that the music really just doesn’t ever die. You’ll love this as much as the original - especially with the impressive mastering and modern production that helps fill every bit of sound! “Siri, turn my HomePod to 100%”

LISTEN ON APPLE MUSIC: “La Bamba”

“Tired Of Flying” - Ryan Kinder, Brandy Clark, Jerry Douglas

The past year has been many different things for people, but the universal truth is that it was different. In my house, I am so grateful for all of the time I’ve gotten to share with my family - and that’s also the aspect that made the year overwhelming. How do we weave family and work and entertainment and personal time into balance inside the four walls of a home? It was a lot. There’s love all over this place, but there were times that were challenging, tiring, and confusing.

Ryan Kinder wrote this incredibly moving song several years ago. But music is timeless. An authentic core is what creates power in music. From the lyrics that tap into the weight of this past year, to the delivery of those lyrics and the instrumentation surrounding them, this song is powerful. In the way that Isbell’s “Cover Me Up” is powerful, this song will strike true. More universally, though, this song will strike home. Adding Brandy and Jerry into a masterpiece was a selfless move by Ryan. He could have held this for himself forever, but the song became stronger because of their inclusion.

LISTEN ON APPLE MUSIC: “Tired of Flying”

“Wilder Days” - Morgan Wade

This year of hibernation has started to bottle up inside me. There are three people that make up my world right now (a fourth arrives next week, my first daughter), but THE WORLD also exists…and I want to experience it! Travel, snowboard, sprinting without a map through the streets in Barcelona and Paris and New York. Places I miss. Night air. Unpredictable, irreplicable moments. I used to want to hold them selfishly to myself, then I met Corri and I wanted to share them. Now as a dad, I want to impart them and encourage my kids to find those moments of absolute freedom. Also, I still need to experience them!

Morgan takes us into a moment, in the midst of a night that is irreplicable. A moment where the wild world is tangible and experience is right in front of us…and chasing that moment is what this song is all about. I am literally head-over-heels for Corri and want a night like this with her - it doesn’t have to be the exact push-and-pull flirtation or rejection with just a shred of hope (like in this song). I just listen to this song and want to go to a concert in the rain. I want to race down the Riverwalk with the misty air of the Hudson (yeah, I’m ok with the Hudson as I tear down West End) on my maskless face …this song gives us all freedom for a moment.

LISTEN ON APPLE MUSIC: “Wilder Days”

“Heart on Fire” - Eric Church

Remember that concert in the rain that I mentioned above? This is the concert I want to be at. Take me to Church.

In the s&%^iest year to be named EOTY (he can’t even go out and enjoy it!?), the Chief has made me feel like the last 11 months have been a Church concert. Single after single, with the promise that an album was on the way - running the gamut of emotions with “Stick That In Your Country Song” “Hell of a View” “Bad Mother Trucker” and now… the triple delivery on the way in April: Heart & Soul

With equal reckless abandon, Church rips into the limitless nights that I seem so enchanted by this week. I grew up in South Dakota and have nights that I look back upon with wonderful nostalgia (as a man) and ungodly terror (as a dad). I hope my kids are smarter than me…and that they also find the way to make nights feel like a rope swing into a moonlit lake with their friends. Eric references memories in half-thoughts; production in the bridge brings the world he’s painting into 3-D… three-dimensional memories mixed with the experience of that three-dimensional future - a future where concerts exist again, and where Chief steps away from the mic, to let the band and his guitar do the talking…while still singing at the top of his lungs. Take a deep breath, (maybe hide your keys/temptation) and hit play!

LISTEN ON APPLE MUSIC: “Heart On Fire”

“Glad To Be Here” - Hailey Whitters f. Brent Cobb

This was the song we needed after my claustrophobic rebellion above. Open the backdoor, throw your feet up on the railing and stare at the beauty all around. Truth be told, I’m overly-appreciative of the things in front of me (I’m that guy that gets choked up at a really good commercial, or when I listen to a song about kids growing up). Whether I’m able to muster up that perspective on a rough day will be irrelevant as long as this song is within reach.

Keeping the streak alive as she’s been releasing new cuts in 2021 (I freakin loved “The Ride”), Hailey not only sings about the simplest forms of happiness, she even acknowledges the rough patches in a song that stays filled with optimism and perspective - enhanced by wailing instrumentation (you can literally hear a mind racing through all the things that lie ahead…then rest on the view immediately before it). I took a beat to understand what kind of career Hailey was looking at, and now its crystal to me. She has spent this year unleashing her vision. If you love Maren, there’s a reason Maren loves Hailey. This is just honest, pensive, and uplifting.

LISTEN ON APPLE MUSIC: “Glad To Be Here”

Honorable Mention (its phenomenal):

“Mr. Atlanta” - Fancy Hagood

I’m consistently blown away by Fancy’s vocals…he reigned himself in (brilliantly) for “The Forest” but the soaring vocals are back in an angsty looking-for-love bop…