Brock Davis

It’s one thing to write an album, it’s another to live the stories and messages you’re writing about. When americana singer songwriter Brock Davis penned his latest album, "Nothing Lasts Forever", a
heartfelt exploration of the transience of life, he was searching for meaning as a songwriter. But as the
mixing process began, a sudden health scare cast the album’s sentiments in a startling new light. Thankfully, Brock is healthy today, and the album is complete. His soulful vocals, eye for poignant details, and masterful storytelling shape a 14 song collection that balances gritty country rock with deep confessional balladry.

“As I was searching for an album title, I realized that there is an overarching theme of life's impermanence that ties many of the songs together”, says the Santa Cruz, California based artist. “Everything changes. If times are hard, it can’t change fast enough. If times are good, we try to hang on as tight as we can, but they pass just the same. We all have our own story about how we come to accept that, and these songs are a few of those stories.”

Brock’s music resides on the outskirts of folk, rock, and country. Like Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, and Jackson Browne, he’s a storyteller with a knack for embedding pop hooks in a deeply rooted americana aesthetic. And like these artists, Brock’s songs offer an unobstructed view into his emotional landscape.

“It’s very human to worry that you wouldn’t like me if you knew the truth", says Brock. “But my hope is to push beyond that fear, because, in songwriting, the truth has got the juice.”

After releasing several critically acclaimed albums in the 2000’s, Brock took a hiatus from the music business to raise a family. He returned in full force in 2018, releasing "A Song Waiting To Be Sung" in 2022 and "Everyday Miracle" in 2024.

Both albums earned enthusiastic reviews nationally and internationally. In Europe, "A Song Waiting To Be Sung" reached #5 on The Euro Americana Chart where Sweden’s Baretta Magazine called it “a small masterpiece”. The follow up, "Everyday Miracle" spent 3 months on The Euro Americana Chart, peaking at #3, and The B-Side Guys blog raved, “Brock Davis has crafted something truly miraculous, an album that feels both deeply personal and universally relatable”.

Brock grew up in a small mill town near Vancouver, Canada, where, like many before him, he first discovered the songs of his musical heroes via the magic of FM radio. However, he stumbled across one of his biggest influences in an unusual way one day when he checked out a Jackson Browne songbook anthology from the local library. Long before actually hearing the singer songwriter’s recordings, Brock poured over the pages and the black dots, absorbing the songs and along the way inadvertently getting a masterclass in country piano in the style of Floyd Cramer, widely considered one of the premiere architects of country piano, as interpreted and passed down by Browne. “There’s a direct line between Jackson’s playing and the piano I played on this record”, Brock confesses.

One of the most affecting songs on the album is “Til The Morning Comes”, which Brock wrote about his aunt who, after going through multiple treatments for cancer, made the choice to discontinue debilitating chemotherapy and instead focus on spending the time she had left with her loved ones. For Brock, that song became frighteningly real as he was diagnosed with an aggressive, fast growing cancer after tracking "Nothing Lasts Forever".

He had a couple of months to reassess his life and it seemed like "Nothing Lasts Forever" could be his final album, so he accelerated the mixing process. Fortunately, Brock later had a biopsy and the results came back benign. “That experience, without doubt, reinforced the message that nothing lasts forever”, he says.

Despite its title, "Nothing Lasts Forever" is ultimately a celebration of life, even when it deals with loss. It opens with “All of You”, a country 'list song' celebrating the unvarnished, everyday qualities he loves about his wife. On the heartbreaking ballad, “Nowhere Near Ready”, Brock writes with tender insight about meeting the right person at the wrong time. He cranks up the guitars on the gritty rocker “I’ll Be Your Alibi” which boasts an empowering narrative of standing up to sexual harassment at the workplace. The title track epitomizes the album’s 'darkest before dawn' optimism as its melancholic verses soar into a cathartic chorus.

Brock uncorks the good old days on the John Mellencamp-style rocker, “Laughin’ ’Til It Hurts”. On the wistful ballad, “I’m Glad You Left Me”, Brock with poetic succinctness diagnoses the ailment of many failed marriages when he sings, “and I could never, ever fill you up, and you could never believe you were good enough”.

“Miracle On The Hudson” details the terrifying emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 made by Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger on the Hudson River in New York. Brock’s song is crafted with journalistic detail and heart wrenching empathy. “I really wanted to focus on what people chose to do when they thought they only had a few minutes left”, he says. One haunting lyric is, “I write ‘I love you’ on a card, leave it in my pocket to be found”.

“Make Your Own Change” is a bittersweet mid life reflection on the need for personal change. “One Paycheck Away” is a blistering indictment of the economic conditions in the US where as many as 60% of American households are living paycheck to paycheck and are one unforeseen event away from homelessness. “Christmas (Going Home)” is a yearning country folk track about going home, not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually as well. “Daddy’s Girl” is a heart breaking ballad about a daughter whose father really wanted a son. And the album closes with “A Daughter”, a shocking story of a life long secret revealed.

Brock produced "Nothing Lasts Forever" using an organic, live from the studio floor approach combined with crisp modern fidelity. Grammy award winning engineer Zach Allen (Keb Mo’, Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram) recorded and mixed the record and the band is made up of world class A-list Nashville session musicians whose credits include work with Bob Seger, Tim McGraw, Stevie Nicks, Blake Shelton, Lori McKenna and Eric Church, among others.

Brock is firming up live dates and working on several videos to support the new album. And keenly aware that "nothing lasts forever”, he’s already working on songs for the next album. “I’ve always felt that my reason for being here is to write songs that touch the heart”, he shares. “I feel that more than ever, and that is the purpose that drives me”.

"Nothing Lasts Forever" will be available physically on February 27th, 2026.