Release date: 6/14/2019 RollingStone.com
Don DiLego, “Your Great Escape”
A longtime collaborator of New York staple Jesse Malin, Don DiLego makes his own kind of big-city alt-country music. On “Your Great Escape,” he grapples with the departure of a former flame whose memory still burns brightly. He’s angry one minute and nostalgic the next, promising his ex that he’ll “always wish you well. . .on your long, long ride through hell.” As the song’s swelling guitars and harmonized vocals find their way toward a close, though, he offers an olive branch, promising to “make it right” if the departed ever returns.