Garrett Heath

“The easy, rootsy nature of both Heath’s approach to recording and his lifestyle as a whole is reflected in a collection of songs that are never less than warm and wholly inviting.” – Leicester Bangs

In light of the difficulties shared throughout the pandemic, “Kingdom Come” steps forward into a world full of potential without forgetting the challenges that brought us here. Read more

The single invites a friendly embrace amidst a rural Americana twang of connection and reconciliation. The album, due out July 30, was mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Pete Lyman (Chris Stapleton, John Prine, Jason Isbell). 

A lilting melody and gospel imagery gather around a table of friends, reminiscing into a rolling and healing swagger. The single enlists a vision where everyone is welcome to come as they are.  Heath says, “At its core, it’s really about a shared sense of belonging and a mutual ‘coming together at the table,’ so to speak. It’s about finding a deeper kind of healing, and it speaks to our deep need for reconciliation in a time of highly politicized division and polarization.”

“…this is a quiet, simple joy.” – Folk Radio UK

A pastoral quality wooded in Heath’s rural Pennsylvania roots permeates the album, under bedding a tapestry woven within a lyrical tale of the human condition. The album was mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Pete Lyman (Chris Stapleton, John Prine, Jason Isbell). 

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The single comes to the listener as a series of short vignettes, each focusing on a unique perspective of daily life in rural America. Each conveys a sense of what it feels like to be left behind by the modern American socio/economic/political complex. It takes on that all-too-common feeling in the rust belt that our best days are behind us, that our lives don’t really count anymore, that even our victories are somehow a loss on the national scale.  

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Heath says about the John Hartford classic, “This song has always had a hold on me. I can remember hearing it as a teenager and naively thinking I’d never compromise my freedoms and the natural beauty around me for a more material existence.” It hit home in an entirely different way when he graduated college and began his first career “office job.” Later, it spoke to him when he moved away from his small town and the rural landscapes he grew up with for several years. He says, “It speaks to me once again now that I’ve returned home to my rural roots and am raising my own children in the middle of the Pennsylvania woods. Of course, life still isn’t as simple as I thought when this song first found me, but I now find beauty in the tension it creates within my own heart.”  Read more

“Garrett Heath’s previous album, Kingdom Come, effortlessly earned a place among my top 10 albums of  2021, and the follow-up, The Losing End, presents a convincing case for making that a double.”  – Mike Davies, Folk Radio

 The album features a collection of stories from Heath’s own patchwork of rural rust-belt America, spanning over five decades. The Losing End hits on themes of economic decline, loss of opportunity, socio-political abandonment, as well as the subtle beauty of daily life in rural America. It’s this feeling of loss and cultural scorn that unifies the record and helps one understand what it’s like to be on “The Losing End.” Read more