Many a good country star has hailed from Tennessee, and Morgan Wallen is the latest to be gracing the airwaves. We first met Morgan Wallen as a contestant on the 2014 version of The Voice. After this exposure he then signed to Panacea Records and began to embark on a successful career as a solo musician. 

Wallen’s latest single is describing a conversation that was had last night that depicts a couple’s last night together. Lyrically, the flow and description he puts into this song helps paint a very clear picture of the story. One of the couple seems to hope for a reconnection, but there is too much doubt from the other that there is clearly an inevitability that this relationship is ending. 

With a simple pattern on an acoustic guitar, the beginning of Last Night very clearly puts us into a country genre. When Morgan Wallen starts singing, his definitive southern accent adds to the flavour. The guitar pattern stays throughout the song, with other instruments gliding in particularly near the end. This is also accompanied by overdubbed vocals and the unique sound of a lap steel guitar. The song itself does a fair bit of repeating patterns, particularly when you start to hear the guitar play the same progression underneath the body of the song, but somehow that adds charm to the song. Morgan Wallen has created a nice hybrid of country and pop and packaged it in a unique way with Last Night. 

Author: Phil Arnold

Phil Arnold is a musician, producer and music reviewer from Devon, in the South West of England. Whilst not writing music reviews, Phil also writes and records under the name of Ugbrooke.