King Calaway - Midnight EP

King Calaway - Midnight

Rating

4.0/5

Flyctory.com Pros

Very versatile music:
´Powerful, uplifting tracks
Fair value for money, if purchased

Flyctory.com Cons

Just four songs

Some new songs by King Calaway: More than two years after I had a listen to their album Rivers, the international band is back with four new songs. The short EP is called Midnight and it has been released on 27th August 2021.

King Calaway – About The Artists

Copy of the bio given in the Rivers review:

King Calaway exist since 2018. The six members are Caleb Miller, Chris Deaton, Simon Dumas, Jordan Harvey, Chad Michael Jervis and Austin Luther. While five of the members are raised in the USA, Dumas grew up in Gibraltar and studied in Manchester. In early 2019, they released their self-titled debut EP.

King Calaway – Midnight – Track by Track

The four song EP lasts 13 minutes. None of the songs has been released before the album.

1. Homegrown

Just four songs, but at least the beginning leads to a good feeling: Homegrown starts as a straight country rock song. However, the bridge has very vibeful sounds. Just as King Calaway wanted to increase the summer-party feeling at this song. Good song.

2. More People

We need more People like that – this song definitely is living from an amazing vocal performance and arrangement. Great option to make your fans sing along to your music towards the end of the next King Calaway shows. The lyrics are rather simple – but that just increases the sing-along potential.

3. Heartbreaker

The tempo of the EP stays rather slow. However, Heartbreaker comes with a nice contrast of dark, almost melancholic verses and powerful modern country parts. Nicely plotted song with a lot of airplay potential.

4. Good Time To Me (feat. Lainey Wilson)

Closing this short selection of four tracks with Lainey WIlson definitely feels to a smart move. The song has a nice vibe and quite some energy – and once Lainey Wilson is joining, the feels like the musical afterburner of the song. So much energy on this track, cool.

King Calaway – Midnight – Spotify

Here is Midnight on Spotify:

King Calaway – Midnight – My View

King Calaway definitely created a really good collection of four songs. In contrast to the Ashley Cooke review this weekend, the duration is short, bu tthe pricing absolutely fine. Very different songs, but all have the potential to boost a country party of live concert. Definitely a short, but very good choice!

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Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge at Disney’s Hollywood Studios (Orlando, Pictured Story)

Shall I do a review or a Pictured Story out of this place? I finally opted for the latter option ...

Puttshack White City (London)

After I made you familiar with Swingers, the "Crazy Golf" provider in the heart of London recently, I just felt ...

Bitburger Brewery World

Bitburg is a comparably small town in the German Eifel region in West Germany, not too far away from the ...

Al Majaz Park & Waterfront Sharjah (Pictured Story)

While I generally enjoy being in the United Arab Emirates due to climate and cultural diversity, I especially have a ...

Leadenhall Market in London (Pictured Story)

Leadenhall Market is one of the most beautiful markets in London. The covered market in Central London has been initially ...

Reykjavik Maritime Museum

The fishing industry has been (and still is) an important part of the Icelandic economy. The Reykjavik Maritime Museum is ...

Cyprus Meze – A Culinary Travel through the Island’s Cuisine

If you travel to another country, it is - of course - also one of the key cultural experiences to ...

Wizard Afternoon Tea at Wizards Exploratorium (London)

Harry Potter has turned a fictive wizard into a huge franchise. Right next to the place you can spend roughly ...

Carlo’s Bakery Hoboken NJ – The Heart of a Cake Empire (Pictured Story)

Once upon a time there was an above-average bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey, right on the opposite site of the ...

Swingers London West End / Big Wheel Course

I personally love mini golf. For me, it is a great way to relax while trying to identify the right ...

Food I Had Onboard IV (May 2022 til August 2022)

Already the fourth edition of my Food I Had Onboard category. Even though my Covid-19 infection changed quite a lot of ...

The Raeren Carrot Museum – Belgium’s Smallest Museum

Even though the Belgian border is less than an hour drive away from where I live, there are not too ...

New Bedford Whaling Museum

The most picturesque tour stop while following the first three concerts of the Weird Al Yankovic Tour 2022 in April ...

Spicy’s Spices Museum (Gewürzmuseum) Hamburg

I enjoy visiting museums, which deal with other topics than the ones you find practically everywhere - arts, technology, biology, ...

Exploring the City Center of Woodstock, NY (Pictured Story)

After I recently took you to Bethel Woods, the grounds of the legendary Woodstock Music Festival, in fact taking you ...

The Bergisch Coffee Table (Bergische Kaffeetafel) – A Sweet and Savory Tradition

The Bergisch Coffee Table (Bergische Kaffeetafel) is a traditional meal, somewhere between a brunch and an afternoon tea. And: it ...

Pig Museum (SchweineMusuem) Stuttgart

A museum about pigs? Indeed, that's something you can do when you are in Stuttgart. Interestingly, the former slaughterhouse is ...

Zotter Chocolate World & Edible Animal Park (Riegersburg, Austria)

After he failed with a franchise of confectionary stores, Austrian Josef Zotter decided to go into the chocolate business in ...

Home of Ritter Sport – Art Museum & Chocolate

Ritter Sport is one of the most famous German chocolate manufacturers. It has been founded in 1912 in Cannstadt, which ...

A Walk Through Greetsiel in East Frisia (Pictured Story)

Greetsiel is one of the popular villages in East Frisia, right at North Sea. Especially the picturesque harbor area is ...

Last Exit Al Khawaneej (Dubai)

The Covid-19 situation limited my potential to travel between Dubai and Abu Dhabi during the last two years. One place ...

Food I Had Onboard III (Mar 2022 til April 2022)

After my second posting about Food I Had Onboard in mid March 2022, I had a couple of interesting flight experiences ...

Driving Up Jebel Jais Mountain

Regardless if you like Dubai or not, you just cannot argue that the landscape around the United Arab Emirates metropolis ...

The Paradise of Calories – Chocolate and Candy Outlets in Aachen

There are quite some reasons to visit the Western German city of Aachen. However, before I spend a night there ...

Food I Had Onboard II (Nov 21 til Mar 2022)

After I got some quite nice feedback about my first Food I Had Onboard posting, I felt to continue this ...

Brewery Museum (Brauerei-Museum) Dortmund

Apart from regional local soccer dominator Borussia and the coal production history, Dortmund is quite well famous for a very ...

Souk Madinat Jumeirah Dubai (Pictured Story)

The area around the world famous seven star hotel Burj al Arab (if someone is paying me a night there, ...

East Frisia Tea Museum (Norden)

Inhabitants of East Frisia drink ten times more tea than the average German - with their consumption of the hot ...

Ottawa ByWard Market (Pictured Story)

ByWard Market in Ottawa is a beautiful entertainment, shopping and relax district in the heart of the Canadian capital. During ...

High Tea at At.mosphere Burj Khalifa Dubai

Watching Dubai from the (currently) world tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, just feels like one of the biggest must-dos for ...

Christmas Market at Westfield Centro Oberhausen

Oberhausen might not be regarded to be one of the most beautiful cities of the German Ruhrgebiet region - but ...

Cereal Killer Cafe Dubai

Corn Flake, muesli, granola, any kind of flavored and sugared loops and many more - cereals are one of the ...

Charles Dickens Christmas Market Heimbach

As I already told you last year when I reviewed the Charles Dickens Museum in London, I am a huge ...

Food I Had Onboard (Oct 2021 til Nov 2021)

In October 2021, on a flight from Munich (MUC) to Keflavik Airport (KEF), I decided to go for a new ...

Olivia Star Observation Deck (Gdansk)

Olivia Star is marketed as Poland's tallest building at the Baltic Sea - and in fact, the 180m high skyscraper ...

Parma Ham Museum

The area around Parma is almost a holy place for foodie lovers. Parmigiana cheese, tomatoes, pasta - a lot of ...

Disgusting Food Museum Berlin

Have you ever heard of Surströmming, Hakarl or Spam? Do you mind eating eyes or drinking cow blood? All these ...

Walking in the London Docklands (Pictured Story)

Due to their high incidences on the delta variant of Covid-19, the United Kingdom is still / again in the ...

Robo Cafe Dubai

Is that the future of dining? Robots creating your mail and serving them at your table. Which sounds a bit ...

Papenburg Von-Velen-Anlage Open Air Museum

Papenburg has some more interesting places other than the famous Meyer Werft. At the opposite part of the town, my ...

Stiegl-Brauwelt Salzburg – A Brewery Museum

Even though I am not a beer drinker, I made a brewery tour during my last stay in the Salzburg ...

Schloss Burg – a Gem in Bergisches Land

Schloss Burg is just about half an hour away by car from my home town Cologne. The castle on the ...

German Food Additives Museum Hamburg

Preservatives, artificial flavors, abherents and more - there are countless potential food additives in our everyday nutrition. You might feel ...

Al Seef – A Historic District at Dubai Creek

During my December 2020 trip to Dubai, I stayed in two hotels in the Al Seef district. The area is ...

Heineken Experience Amsterdam

Even if you likely think of their home brand when you think about Heineken - but in fact their beer ...

Dave & Buster’s – Sports, Eating & a Video Game Arcade

One of my favorite franchises when being in the United States is undoubtedly Dave & Busters. It has been part ...

Views of London from One New Change (Pictured Story)

Before the pandemic limitations, One New Change Mall in London has been a really popular place. First of all, it ...

Coffee Museum Dubai

Coffee and tea are key parts of the Arabic culture. Thus, I was curious about visiting the Dubai Coffee Museum ...

taku Dining Box in Cologne – Gourmet Food at Home

Since late October 2020, restaurants in Germany are not allowed to open as a pandemic lock-down measure. However, take-away services ...

Chocoversum by Hachez Hamburg

A place about and full of chocolate - I am quite sure that I am not the only one who ...

Chocolate Museum Cologne (Schokoladenmuseum)

Cologne Cathedral is the key attraction of my home town Cologne, of course (it is even one of Germany's very ...

Gaststätte Grossmarkthalle – The Best Bavarian White Sausage in Munich

There is no better start of the day for Munich people than a Weißwurst breakfast with a prezel and a beer. The Weißwurst, ...

Voss Chocolate Hotel (Schokoladenhotel) Westerstede

Spending the weekend in a hotel dedicated to chocolate? Does not sound too bad, doesn't it? When my wife spotted ...

High Tea at Euromast and Euroscoop (Rotterdam)

We did not have too much time in Rotterdam when we visited the region in late August 2020. My wife ...

Vleminckx – The Best French Fries in Amsterdam?

Sometimes you see hordes of people, locals and tourists, in front of a small booth at the end of Voetboogstraat ...

Hangar 7 (Salzburg, Austria – Pictured Story)

Hangar 7 at Salzburg Airport, driven by (likely) the world leader of energy drinks, is a quite popular and well ...

St. Helier (Jersey) Markets (Pictured Story)

One thing I especially loved about Jersey's capital St. Helier are the two markets in the center of the city ...

100 Years of Gold Bears and More – Haribo Shopping around Cologne

My birth town Bonn has been hit heavily by Covid-19. The key reason for that are not health issues, but ...

Planespotting at In-N-Out Burger Los Angeles Airport

The Californian In-N-Out Burger chain is generally quite well known under West Coast tourists. Aviation nerds especially praise the restaurant ...

Clarke Quay (Singpore) by Night (Pictured Story)

Clarke Quay in Singapore is one of the most well-known (and most touristic) entertainment districts in the center of the ...

The Bourbon Room / Rock of Ages Hollywood

Not just in regards of the third day of my time in California, but also for the whole trip following ...

Tombo x Sanrio – Hello Kitty-branded meals in London

Since my recent trips to Singapore and Taiwan latest I know that the true hero of Asian pop culture is ...

Hofbräuhaus Pittsburgh

The Hofbräuhaus is one of the maybe most well-known and iconic places in Munich, Germany. Even if you don't care about ...

Afternoon Tea with a View at Observation Deck at 300 in Abu Dhabi

The Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi may not be as impressive as Burj Khalifa in Dubai, but therefore the queues ...

ThEATre by Rhodes – U.A.E.-style Luxury Cinema

Combining a cinema visit with Michelin star-chef created food? Nothing is impossible in the United Arab Emirates! At the last ...

Sheikh Zayed Heritage Festival

Two months of Islamic culture in a free open air festival - this is the Sheikh Zayed Heritage Festival close ...

Historic Mustard Mill Cologne

The Historic Mustard Mill in Cologne ("Historische Senfmühle Köln") is quite a unique place in the million people city. It ...

Cologne Stadtgarten Christmas Market

The Stadtgarten in Cologne is both, a recreational park in the heart of the city, whose facilities are protected, and ...

Cologne Harbor Christmas Market at Chocolate Museum

During each festive season, Cologne is crowded with tourists and visitors due to its Christmas markets. There are masses of ...

An Ode to Singapore Hawker Center Culture

There are many iconic places and interesting things to do in Singapore. You may visit historic places as well as ...

Twinings – The Oldest Tea Room in London

The place is so tiny and mousy that there is a huge potential to miss it: if you are exploring ...

Finca Las Margaritas – Banana Experience on Tenerife

It is very hard to avoid stereotypes when a German blogger is writing a posting about bananas. Preparing for our ...

TWG – My Favorite Tea Brand

If I would turn Flyctory.com into a food blog, I am sure it would be a terrible fail. Nevertheless, there ...

Beefeater Gin Distillery Tour (London)

Beefeater Gin is one of the most well-known and popular gins of the world. Despite the destillation takes places in ...

Royal High Tea at the Emirates Palace

My wife and I have stayed twice in the amazing Emirates Palace for vacation. To me, it is one of ...

Last Exit and Mad X – Alternative Refueling

Motorway service plazas are the most boring places in the world? Not if you are in the United Arab Emirates, ...

ICON Park Orlando – A new Entertainment District

Just some three years after the complex opened in 2015, the former "I-Drive 360" district next to Orlando International Drive ...

Orlando – A very different McDonald’s Experience

Flyctory.com is neither a food-blog nor an advertisement platform for fast food. However, visiting the McDonald's at International Drive, Orlando, ...