The Heartstringers — vintage country album sleeve with an acoustic guitar resting on a rocking chair at golden hour

Country songs by RT Wright

The Heartstringers

For the ones who stayed.

Plainspoken songs about love over time, ordinary joys, aging, loss, and starting again.

Latest single · Out now

Night Over Day

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The music

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For the people still here, carrying love and memory forward. There is room for grief, new beginnings, laughter, and another chance.

The Heartstringers bring RT Wright's songbook to life. Specific lives and small details give the songs their weight.

Country at the center, with room for country-pop, solo voices, and duets. Clear words, warm performances, arrangements that give the story room.

The writer

RT Wright writes about love over time, ordinary joys, aging, loss, and starting again. The Heartstringers is where his songbook comes to life.

RT Wright writes the lyrics. Brian 404 brings the songs to life through music, production, and arrangement.

From the songbook

A handful from the songbook. Each one already written. Each one with a story to tell.

Silver Carousel

The anniversary song

A tender country waltz, two voices trading verses about a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary — back at the same fair where they first met, the same carousel still turning.

Beach Walk

Coastal country folk

A widow walks her dog on the shore where her husband's ashes were scattered. Gentle, restrained, the kind of grief that has made its peace with the morning.

Her Jewelry Box

Intimate ballad

A widower stands at the dresser asking himself the oldest question there is — when is the moment for letting go, and is it ever really the right one?

Hummingbirds

Warm acoustic duet

Male and female voices trade verses and meet on the choruses. Tender and close, the sound of two people who have learned each other by heart.

Unless There Is You

Pop-country crooner

A husband narrates the kind of ordinary night that turns out to be everything, in the smooth mid-register warmth of an old standard.

Sailing on Rainbows

A love letter, late in life

A warm ballad with a gentle rolling feel — a man writing his wife the letter he should have written years ago, while there's still time to mean it.

Contact

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brian@heartstringers.com
brian@brian404.com

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