“Good things happen when you pick up a guitar.”

Ian Munsick’s philosophy may not work for everybody, but it definitely works for him. The perfect example is his latest single: “Love is Blind,” released by Triple Tigers to country radio via PlayMPE on April 10. The opening guitar riff is catchy, the melody fits nimbly with the vulnerable shades in his voice, and its word play is so subtle that it works as a bonus, showing itself to many listeners only after they’ve heard it more than once.

“All of the most-clever [plays] on words,” he reasons, “[are ones where] you hear it once, and it just kind of feels right — but then you hear it again, it’s like, ‘Oh, that’s what they did there.’”

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