Burning Daylight Noah Rinker

• 1 Red Bandana (48 kHz) 03:47
• 2 99 03:21
• 3 The Bend (48 kHz) 04:02
• 4 Ripple 02:58
• 5 No Friend of Mine 03:28
• 6 Wherever I Go 04:11
• Total Runtime 21:47

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The forthcoming six-track project expands on Noah’s burgeoning catalog, featuring two brand new songs alongside beloved tracks such as “The Bend,” “Red Bandana,” and “Wherever I Go.” The latter not only adorned the cover of Amazon’s “bonfire” playlist but also soared to #1 on Spotify’s “Hot Country,” showcasing the broad appeal of Noah’s captivating folk-pop blend. This momentum was further amplified by the fan-favorite “Save My Soul,” which has racked up over 27 million streams to date, boosted by its recent feature on CBS’ hit series Fire Country. These successes have fueled his rapidly expanding fanbase, now exceeding 1.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify, and most recently earned him a spot on Holler Country’s “10 Country and Americana Artists You Need to Know” list, with the publication noting that his songs “feel like coming home to something you know and love.”

Noah Rinker

Noah Rinker
There are a few words that singer, songwriter, and musician Noah Rinker likes to use throughout conversations about his artistry, recurring themes and umbrellas under which so much of the 22-year-old’s fledgling career can neatly fall under. Community drives Noah’s sound, his lyricism, and his entire point of view. Growing up in small town Shaver Lake in the mountains of California, an hour east of Fresno, in a non-musical family, he found song wherever he could. Playing a family friend’s upright piano by ear at age 5 led to piano lessons, which blossomed into him playing hymnals at his church’s weekly services, which “helped me build up an ear for chord structure and arranging, because those standards are just so musically consistent when you think about it.”

All the while, his family—parents, grandparents, his 98-year-old great grandma (who lives on his property to this day), his two younger brothers, cousins, aunts and uncles—raised him “doing mountain stuff” on afternoons and weekends; they’d play with sticks and rocks in the creek near his house. “They’re my rock and my world,” he says. When his dad wasn’t teaching him how to run gas line or set up meter interface as part of his propane utility company, he was taking him snowboarding and mountain biking and wake surfing. Life was simple; everyone knew everyone in the small community, and for Noah, his love of music, hometown, and nature intertwined as he grew. Aspiration led him to pick up the guitar at 14, borrowing a cousin’s instrument and learning to play it like a lap steel because he assumed the fretboard might work the same way a keyboard did. At 16, he wrote his first song, inspired by artists he was listening to on the radio as he’d drive around, lyricists and “truly world-builders” like Shawn Mendes and Ed Sheeran. After a few years of posting songs online, future collaborators reached out to set up sessions with him outside of Shaver Lake. And “what really changed the game was having the opportunity to leave the place that I was so used to, to get a different perspective, then realizing how inspiring home really was all along,” he says. “Leaving made me realize that home was the thing that made me who I was all along.”

You see that connection between song and soul in his videos, a steady stream of simple acoustic performances on his Instagram that set the scene: Noah, a guitar, and the place he grew up. Sometimes you’ll see the mountains sprawled out behind him as he plays; other times, he’s cloaked in darkness, only lit by a crackling campfire. There are covers mixed in with originals; snippets of works-in-progress tossed in to workshop, and to gift to listeners needing a respite, and to crowd-test; paired with months-in-the-making singles he’s on the cusp of releasing.

The music: it’s real, it’s raw, and it’s Noah Rinker distilled and at his truest essence. Songs like “Save My Soul” and “The Place I’m From” and “I Hope It Hurts” introduce the world to a storyteller doing what he does best—digging deep, baring his soul, and laying it out on the page for just a few minutes of honest connection. “I try to write a lot of everything outside when it's nice enough,” he says. “It's just usually me and a guitar, and I'll just play for a couple hours and figure out a riff. And if I'm being really honest, a lot of the writing just falls out when I'm mumbling. The best stuff that I feel like I've ever done has just blown right down from above and it's magically exactly what I wanted to say but I would have never said it that way but my subconscious just worded it perfectly.”

Because so much of his music first finds traction in acoustic social media videos, the translation process between what fans heard first and what hits their ears on record has become one of Noah’s favorite parts of the process. “To me, music production is about capturing the performance of a record, so I take the time to just whittle down what I want the performance to be like,” he says. “And because I’m still new to the production side of things, I just take what I have up at my house—which is a condenser mic, a Focusrite Scarlett interface, and Logic Pro. And I set it up, and I get a really solid guitar take and I just try to get the most authentic base to build upon.” ...

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