Cut by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb, the song Made by These Moments chronicles love worth searching for, knock-down fights with self-prescribed demons and a hard-earned faith found by the end of each day. It has a message of preserving and getting through something and coming out having hope. Am I working hard enough? I just wanna be loved. Wanting to be heard. Wanting to be loved. Pressing play on the new album from Wyatt Flores can feel a bit like turning down a gravel road.
At times, it may challenge you, like when the steering wheel shakes as your tires catch on a few loose rocks. You may get a little lost. But you may also find yourself along the way. Just being lost in it all. A song trek through tales of fiery love, small-town truths and lighthearted mortality, Welcome To The Plains captures the grounded, sincere storytelling forged by Flores in-part during formative years in his hometown, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
After his brief run on campus, Flores ranched while moonlighting as an aspiring songwriter. He began independently releasing music, and soon took extended trips to Nashville in hopes of honing his craft alongside seasoned songwriters.
Gigs in tiny Oklahoma bars turned into shoulder-to-shoulder club shows and, eventually, a contract with Island Records. In the foot-stomping country-folk tune, Flores stretches a new take on his homeland. Like a laundry list of tongue-in-cheek dying wishes, the song requests that the narrator be cut in half after he passes, because funerals can cost a fortune.
And if you talk shit, be prepared for a ghost to spook your kids. Earlier this year, Flores canceled a handful of tour dates to prioritize his mental health.
