We recently had the pleasure to check out the phenomenal new LP “Let The Winter Come “from Sacramento based singer-songwriter Richard March .

You can listen to “Let The Winter Come” on Bandcamp Here You can also watch the video for “Let The Winter Come” below

We found “Let The Winter Come “ which, is the fourth record from Richard March , to be an extraordinary musical experience.

Richard March has an easy and relatable vibe in his music. While the songs remind us of other artists, such as Tom Petty , Jackson Brown and Jason Isbell , Richard March has his own style and vibe . Currently based in Sacramento, Richard is originally from the Bay Area an influence that also shines through in his songs.

Powerful moments that have shaped his songwriting include the loss of his son Gabriel, to Krabbe’s syndrome, a rare, incurable genetic defect before his first birthday, and the divorce that followed that painful time. March also took time away from performing in 2013 when he joined the Peace Corps and spent 27 months as an education volunteer in Ethiopia. Despite the deeply emotive lyrics and themes explored in his songs, March keeps his tempos bright and his musical language breezy, in keeping with his California, country-soul tradition.

The album opens with the hard-luck heartland acoustic-rocker, “Leaving,” which recalls Steve Earle at his most viscerally vulnerable. March opens up here about losing his son and his divorce. His words speak to a lump-in-your-throat swell of emotion. He sings: Leaving, startin’ new/Heavy feet are hard to move/Taking off ‘fore the glue gets dry/Hope you learned a thing or two/Buddy when this is through/You better not ask why.

On the seething, “Abraham,” March shines a line on the horrors of modern war, recalling Bob Dylan’s “Masters Of War” and, more recently, Jason Isbell’s “Dress Blues.” He points the finger at the politicians, generals, and American Military Industrial Complex, through the metaphor of Abraham. March tackles the world’s deepening climate and economic crises in “Happy New Year” with cinematic writing that paints a stirring portrait of the fallout from our “greed is good” model. “The unregulated American capitalism that took off in the 1980’s, decimated the middle class and has left us with an ever widening gap between the 1% vs the 99%,” he says. “Now, post pandemic, economic despair fuels a drug crisis and unaffordable housing creates tent cities.”

As for the title of album March explains . “I am a winter person—it’s when I feel a strong sense of ‘home,’ and feel ‘held’ by my environment as opposed to threatened. During this time, I am at my most creative,”

“Let The Winter Come “ by Richard March is an album that should be on the top of any music lovers list . We highly recommend this extraordinary record .