Always

Out there, “always” was the word said before every run: two knocks on a helmet and a promise tossed off like it cost nothing. Back home, it costs everything. “Always” is a survivor’s ballad about the brother who didn’t make it back and the one still keeping his word. He fixes his mama’s porch, sits in the bleachers at his boy’s ballgames, and shows up for the baby girl he never met. Over a slow-burn 6/8 groove of sparse Telecaster and lonesome harmonica, Brothers in the Blast pair outlaw country grit with Midwest emo honesty. There’s no flag-waving, just the weight of a promise that outlives the man who made it. For every veteran carrying the heavier side, and every family that opened the screen door.