Video: Aaron Kyle, ‘Restless’

Kevin Bronson on February 25th, 2022

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Singer-songwriter Aaron Kyle has tilled the rich loam of roots music for two decades. His swampy blues outfit Le Switch stuck out like Mardi Gras baubles in the indie-rock Silver Lake of the Aughts. With his next project Geronimo Getty, he fully embraced country music.

And more than five years after the last Geronimo Getty release, that’s where we find him, boot-stomping less and reflecting more — and releasing music under his own name for the first time.

Out today, “Here in the River” is a six-track EP that’s a reminder that often stories are best told by a man with a quavering baritone. The EP finds Kyle restarting his engines after a stretch of life challenges, one of which included writer’s block. Integral in the process was the work that Kyle and his Geronimo Getty bandmates did with Liz Pappademas on her 2020 album, “Rock Record.”

Indeed, “Restless” and the redemptive “River,” were co-written by Pappademas. The former was the lead track on her album, but Kyle transforms it into a skittering, sweaty-palmed distress call (though sweetened by her backing vocals) on his EP.

A cast of scene all-stars aided in the making of “Here in the River,” notably drummer and co-producer/enginner Joe Napolitano, who during the sessions at Barefoot Studios in Hollywood would press “record” and then jump behind the kit to play drums. Besides Pappademas, guitarist Christopher Harrison, bassist Jonathan Price and string players (on “Take My Love”) Morgan Gerstmar and Betsey Rettig appear on the EP.

Kyle and Pappademas take to the hills in director Bryan Kramer’s video for “Restless.” Sometimes, when open country calls, you need to answer.

||| Watch: The video for “Restless”