Singer-songwriter Calum Baird shares his single These Dire Days, a track steeped in hope, it has a real traditional folk feel to it with the mandolin and strum rhythm of the guitar and that bold, strong, almost comforting vocal that Calum is renowned for.
It’s a song built on reflection of difficult times yet filled with optimism and hope for what can come next. Calum is an excellent story teller, These Dire Days is a song delivered in such a way that it feels like one half of a conversation, whoever the second part of the conversation is, we do not know.
These Dire Days reminds us that darkness doesn’t sit around us forever and that better, lighter and easer days will come again. I can imagine a campfire sing-a-long with some tears shed amongst friends, or even a pub full of strangers, pint in hand, swaying and belting out the lyrics…
These dire days, they too shall pass, no matter how broken, they can’t ever last.
Some songs just stick, and this is one of those songs. One that hits you in the feels, a song you continue to come back to but wherever you hear this, whatever kind of day you are having, I know Calum likely wishes it brings you comfort, warmth and most importantly hope.
