T.Roy & The Smoking Section release “Hurting Each Other” from the Asheville Sessions EP
From Asheville Sessions, the second of five recording project releases from t.Roy & The Smoking Section, this song really ticks all the boxes. It’s rock, it’s blues, it’s soul, it’s gospel, it’s pop, it’s R&B. Most of all it’s heartbreak expressed melodically.
The “Asheville Sessions” were recorded in 2018 at Echo Mountain Studio in Asheville, NC produced by Ted Pearce and Josh Blake. However, since all the members were in different bands, and no live band was formed until 2023, absolutely no promotion was done for the song until now.
t.Roy wrote this song about a recent divorce and needed to “get it out” if only for the mental and emotional healing it provided. The Smoking Section are veterans musicians from various jam sessions around Asheville’s amazing music scene who helped make the project reality.
“I wasn’t too crazy about those painful details being made public back when we first recorded the song. It’s sad when something sacred is broken, and I only wanted to express how I felt for my own emotional healing. It ended up being a more mature break-up song than what you generally get from angry ex-mates, and it helped tremendously for my ultimate inner peace”
Co-writer and keyboard genius, Lenny Pettinelli, starts the song with a piano riff that almost makes you wish the rest of the band wouldn’t come in….but then they do, and the listener is enveloped in aural ecstasy as the soulful voice of t.Roy takes you through a heartfelt story of dying love.
The lyrics seems certain to capture the ears and the imagination of anyone who has been through the trauma of divorce, or any kind of break-up.
t.Roy hopes “Hurting Each Other” helps you get through the worst of it and stop hurting.
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“‘Hurting Each Other’ has a beautiful, laid-back vibe. The vocals are charming and comforting while perfectly capturing the melancholia of divorce or other life-changing scenarios. The swooping and soaring guitars, vibrant sax, and stunning backing vocals bring the track together with majestic class.”
