David Paul Zimmer - 'Where You Are'

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David Paul Zimmer reflects on long distance love on moving indie folk single, ‘Where You Are’.

Tallahassee native, David Paul Zimmer, spent 2020 dropping delicately wondrous folk singles, with Dreamcatcher resembling the full-band heartiness of Ben Howard, and the undeniable sense of constant motion in Your Kind of Crazy, carried along by shakers and beautifully interlaced keys. 

So, 2021 arrives, and Zimmer returns with Where You Are. Almost instantly, the high production quality is notable. There’s a true Nashville late-night melancholy, playing-alone-at-a-dive-bar vibe in the whiskey-soaked acoustic guitar, accompanied by the swelling and soaring electric guitar that reverberates stunningly across the backdrop of the track. 

As ever, David Paul Zimmer’s voice is smooth and husky, gliding over the gorgeous instrumental in a haunting and ghostly manner. This only adds to the sense of lost and free wandering that rings throughout the lyrics about long distance relationships: “The place that I belong is anywhere you go.” It’s a deeply passionate and thought-provoking sentiment, and Zimmer’s voice only accentuates that, similarly to a top-tier Gregory Alan Isakov track. 

This song also may hit deeper given the pandemic and how difficult it is for some to physically be with their lovers from afar, giving it a whole new undiscussed meaning. 

If this tune is a sign of things to come for David Paul Zimmer, then the future is promising and bright for the folk scene.

Words of Curtis Saunders

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