Self-titled Album Thomas Csorba Out 9/25
Today Texas singer/songwriter Thomas Csorba has released “Heartache After Heartache,” the second single from his upcoming album Thomas Csorba (out 9/25). The video was shot entirely on film, at locations around Thomas’s neighborhood in Dallas, TX.
“The idea of perpetual heartache sounds like a dismal way of looking at the world, but it’s honest, isn’t it? This song is about facing that reality head on,” says Thomas. “I’ll be getting married in a few short weeks, and I’ve begun to understand this reality in practice. Love isn’t a pretty, hot pink endeavor. It’s walking arm in arm together into the uncertainties of this world. Our commitment to each other is not that we’d be perfect in our love for one another, but that we’d always walk alongside each other in the inevitable times of heartache.”
Watch the video for “Heartache After Heartache”:
https://youtu.be/yW1FyCGxYSc
American Songwriter recently said in their premiere of the album’s first single “Another Man In Me,” “Thomas Csorba captures the sound of a man whose voice far outweighs his years on Earth at a ripe 23.”
Thomas Csorba has been writing and performing since his early teens, playing shows at historic Texas venues like the Cactus Cafe in Austin and the Mucky Duck in Houston. He put out his first independent EP while still attending Houston’s Memorial High School. By the time he departed for college, he was already working on the collection of tunes that would make up his full-length debut, 2017’s From the Foxhole. Now he’s back with Thomas Csorba, a collection of westerns with a touch of the dust bowl blues, the album moves effortlessly between big country Texas tales and tender bedroom intimacy. Thomas spins expansive stories with a cast of aimless travelers, stubbled loners, and yellowing family portraits.
The album was produced by Beau Bedford, who Thomas met while playing Willie Nelson’s Luck Reunion during SXSW. Prior to producing and mixing Thomas Csorba at Modern Electric Sound Recordings in Dallas, Beau notched production credits for Paul Cauthen, Quaker City Night Hawks, and the Texas Gentlemen themselves (who joined as Thomas’s band on the record).
Then the pandemic struck. Like every other musician on the planet, Thomas was forced to adjust. What was to be a busy year of roads and rest-stops has instead been spent in reflection and recalibration. Thomas found solace in his work, even writing and recording several additional songs for the album. In spite of the uncertainty around him, he has created something that brims with self assuredness.
“Every question that I face in this season of life seems to be the biggest question,” Thomas observes. “You know…what am I gonna make of myself? What am I going to mean to other people? What am I going to leave behind? I think those are American questions. It’s part of the water I grew up drinking.”