Music Review // Frank Hannon "One More Time"

In the modern age of music, the sound has seem to shifted more toward that of being digital than organically created.  While autotune and AI seem to have taken over a lot of what we call music in the year 2025, it is refreshing to hear someone not only playing a guitar but doing so to a point where it takes a certain level of talent to accomplish.   As it feels like we might go one day from actual "guitar lessons" to simply learning how to run a program, it is comforting to know that Frank Hannon is still out here.

"One More Time" begins with these dreamy, desert style guitars.  There are guitar chords in the back that have that sort of ska rhythm to them and the notes in front are highlighted.   Somewhere between a film such as "Desperado"- in that guitar slinging way- and something like the blues or even rock n roll via Buddy Holly era, Frank Hannon just combines so much of the past and the present into this song.

But what this song really does that is just so uncommon today (and really has been growing less and less common the 21st Century) is the guitar notes just sing.  You could consider this to be an instrumental song in the sense that there are not any vocals in it, but these guitar notes are most certainly singing.  Anyone who can make their instrument do this is undoubtedly a master of their craft.

What Frank Hannon does with this song is more than just making the guitar sing though.  There is a story told within.  Each of these delicate notes plucked in a fast fashion just gives way to the same idea as someone sitting around a campfire strumming an acoustic guitar and singing.  The way that Frank Hannon can do all of this with the guitar is not only something everyone should hear as a reminder of music past but perhaps to take as an influence for music future, to preserve a sound.