29 October 2021 - 0 Comments

Award-winning artist Arun O'Connor's super catchy, soaring-chorus and toe-tapping country song Too Far Gone, is the first single off his anticipated debut album Songs from the Reading Room. Too Far Gone is an upbeat tune about bad decisions that will make its way to the top of your summertime playlist.

Too Far Gone was created earlier this year by Arun and Nashville writers Ryan Sorestad, Brittany Knott and Taylor Nash. Because of Covid travel restrictions, the backing tracks were recorded at Pentavarit Studios in Nashville with sought-after producer Jay Tooke on drums, Billy Justineau (of Brothers Osbourne and Eric Church) on keyboards, Brad Sample (Randy Houser) on guitar and Lee Hendricks (Eric Church) on bass; Arun then recorded his parts at Roundhead Studios in Auckland. The result is "Too Far Gone" - a track that grabs your ear and doesn't let go.

Arun says, "Too Far Gone is a song about the mistakes we make in life, with all the bad choices that lead us down the roads we don’t want to go down. It is a song that will hopefully make us question our own intentions and reevaluate what is most important in our lives. Maybe we deserve that second chance. Maybe we can change and be the person we had always set out to be. Too Far Gone speaks of a seemingly never-ending cycle of mistakes and regrets but with a stubbornness of not wholeheartedly wanting to change."

Arun comes from a family of award-winning country musicians, so it seems only natural that he would follow suit. The lone wolf guitar player in a line of drummers, Arun swept the 2018 Gold Guitar Awards in the Vocal and New Country categories, winning Southland Musician of the Year and sending him on the road to recording his debut album with industry greats in Nashville. Having never previously written his own songs, the two self-penned singles from his Stateside stint reached the top of the NZ charts.

Growing up in the small city of Invercargill at the southern tip of Aotearoa New Zealand’s South Island, Arun’s musical sensibilities were shaped not only by his dad and brothers, but also by the American country music his parents played, like Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton and Patsy Cline. These influences - and Arun's fascination with Eagles musicianship - are evident in the infectiously catchy melody and chorus of Too Far Gone.

Too Far Gone is available via all good streaming services from Friday 29 October on a/b Records.

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