People keep saying Zach Top sounds like the ghost of 90s country, and this time the ghost brought receipts. “South Of Sanity” is not just another throwback song. It feels like a lost George Strait or Keith Whitley track that finally found its way out of the vault.
He is outside Montana one night, outside Amarillo the next, while the one he loves is two thousand miles away and running out of patience. The phone call hurts, but the stage keeps calling louder.
The hook hits where it hurts most: “She has left me somewhere south of sanity, still just north of insane.” It is simple, sharp, and it stays in your head long after the last note fades.
Zach co wrote it with Carson Chamberlain and Mark Nesler, the same minds that helped shape the Strait era sound in the first place. You can hear every mile of that history in the fiddle, the pedal steel, and the spaces between the lines.
Zach grew up on a ranch, cut his teeth in bluegrass, and just walked away with ACM New Male Artist of the Year.
Zach Top – South Of Sanity
You want to hear South Of Sanity live and see what happens when that same song hits a real stage? Here, Zach is not just singing about being “called to the stage” while love slips away. He is living it under the Colorado night sky at Red Rocks, one of the most famous venues in the world. It feels less like a promotion and more like proof that this song is built to last.
Zach Top – South Of Sanity (Live at Red Rocks)
There is a sit down on the Bobby Bones Show where Zach talks about growing up in Sunnyside, playing in his family band Top String, and trading ranch work for a guitar and a suitcase. It was recorded the very day this album came out, so you hear him right at the moment “South Of Sanity” met the world.