The title track to Luke O’Shea’s forthcoming album, ‘Next Best Thing’, sees Luke teaming up yet again with his multiple Golden Guitar winning musical mate, Ashleigh Dallas.
Inspired from the passing of songstress Nanci Griffith, Luke was exploring a sweet, melancholy melody found in a new open-tuning of the guitar when an impromptu telephone conversation with Ashleigh left him with the striking words ‘next best thing’.
“Imagery is everything with songwriting,” Luke said.
“And when you hear, or rather when you can paint a big visual canvas with just a few, very select words, then that is the eureka moment!”
Luke knew exactly what to do with that new melody and later that evening called Ash up to declare that they had a new duet.
“Thankfully Ash loved the song as much as I did, and she could easily relate to the various ebbs and flows of our favourite things in life,” Luke said.
“I also loved the double entendre of ‘Next Best Thing’ which seemed a perfect title for my upcoming album.”
Ashleigh said she enjoyed working with Luke on another collaboration and was looking forward to listeners hearing this new release.
The joyous video for ‘Next Best Thing’ sees the award-winning trio of Luke, Ash and video co-director Jay Seeney, of Blacklist Productions, reuniting for the first time since the success of the 2022 CMT Video Clip of the Year Golden Guitar-winning ‘Long Way ‘Round’.
“There really is a special friendship and chemistry between Ash and myself,” Luke said
“The unique ability of Jay to be able to encourage and capture that connection, and that joy, is what makes him so easy to work with and such an in-demand director.”