“Where I’m Home” by Aaron Bucks

“Where I’m Home” by Aaron Bucks, comes as part of an Oceanfront Two-Pack release, prior to the LP release of The Life Sessions, coming in 2026. The story of Aaron Bucks is just as fascinating as his songwriting approach, which essentially fuses Country and Caribbean influences to find a genre worthy of its own label it would be amazing to see become a reality. I’ve never heard anything fusion mesh so well, so Bucks is onto something, but then I might even be behind an already existing movement, it’s just too soon to tell at the time of writing, but if it’s already a thing, then good on it.

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Aaron Bucks hails from Nashville, via Canada, so that might also be where his unique music ideas come from, as Canada has always been a hotbed for extremely unique individual artists and bands. I think Bucks has something to write home about altogether with his own brand of music, and if it’s something widely known, I’ll catch on later as I recommend something I’m immediately impressed with. “Where I’m Home” gets the first word about Bucks here, but the Oceanfront Two-Pack Release also comes with “Jump Into The Weekend” which follows with more description.

“Where I’m Home” centers around the comforts and advantages of making it back home after work, travel, or whatever keeps the man away from his home and family, which Bucks delivers a lighthearted vocal over a bubbling groove that won’t quit. The acoustic lines are sharp, and the percussion is also light but evident and snappy in the right parts, then the chorus hits and you’re treated to a real soulful songsmith, leaving the usual Country cliche’s behind, but retaining the Country spirit anyone can recognize. It’s almost two songs in one that way, but it’s really a Bucks signature.

If you get into the campfire atmosphere of “Where I’m Home,” you can instantly relate to it, besides what the lyrics tell, and it’s a winning ticket across the board. All you can do is prepare for more of the same with Bucks, as the songs are all similar in a contagious way, rather than annoying with repeating factors. And I was lucky to get two songs out of this but had to hear more from Bucks to really wrap my head around the styles he fuses, and I find the soulful and Caribbean influences more to my taste than County.

“Jump Into The Weekend” is the other side of the coin, with a slightly more energetic song, but it’s relative to the whole topic of what goes on at home, after work, travel, etc. Both songs go together so well it’s uncanny and propels anticipation for the release of The Life Sessions, which promises an entire full-length album of more where these excellent songs come from. Aaron Bucks can compete in several areas from Country to World Music categories where many artists fall but never quite solidify their own genres, but this is an artist managing to carve out his own musical world within.

Michael Rand