Ross Flora Brought Emotional Rock Back Home in ‘Cornerstone’

Those Americana rock riffs never age, especially when they’re laid down by hands as deft as Ross Flora’s evidently are. With the lyrics in his latest single, Cornerstone, heart and soul are pried open, and out pours resonance for anyone who has ever found their centre of gravity within the arms of another. With the glow of the 80s radiating from the nostalgically magnetic production, Cornerstone almost feels like it could have been torn from a Hollywood blockbuster, which tracks a protagonist from being down on his faith to finding the illumination at the end of the tunnel through connection. With razor-sharp songwriting chops, a tendency to never leave sincerity from sentimentality, and guitar licks that no Southern rock fan could turn their nose up at, Ross Flora is the aural comfort we never knew we needed on our playlists. The Blue Ridge Mountains native has built a career around channelling the sounds of his roots through his own signature timbre, shaped as much by classic Southern rock and bluegrass as it is by the literary giants he studied as an English major. Since cutting his teeth on church harmonies and Van Halen covers, Flora’s evolution has taken him from […] The post Ross Flora Brought Emotional Rock Back Home in ‘Cornerstone’ appeared first on A&R Factory.

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Those Americana rock riffs never age, especially when they’re laid down by hands as deft as Ross Flora’s evidently are. With the lyrics in his latest single, Cornerstone, heart and soul are pried open, and out pours resonance for anyone who has ever found their centre of gravity within the arms of another. With the glow of the 80s radiating from the nostalgically magnetic production, Cornerstone almost feels like it could have been torn from a Hollywood blockbuster, which tracks a protagonist from being down on his faith to finding the illumination at the end of the tunnel through connection. With razor-sharp songwriting chops, a tendency to never leave sincerity from sentimentality, and guitar licks that no Southern rock fan could turn their nose up at, Ross Flora is the aural comfort we never knew we needed on our playlists. The Blue Ridge Mountains native has built a career around channelling the sounds of his roots through his own signature timbre, shaped as much by classic Southern rock and bluegrass as it is by the literary giants he studied as an English major. Since cutting his teeth on church harmonies and Van Halen covers, Flora’s evolution has taken him from […]

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