“One More Time” Finds Frank Hannon Walking the Long Trail Back Home

“One More Time,” the first taste of Frank Hannon’s upcoming album Reflections, is a patient, melodic slide number that feels less like a performance and more like a journal entry.

You can almost smell the dust and hear the wind. The track carries a lonesome Western vibe, the kind of tune you’d imagine drifting out of an old barn radio as the sun sets over the paddock. Hannon, best known for his work with TESLA, isn’t shredding here. He’s remembering.

The choice to record the entire album on a phone, with nothing but a guitar, a mic, and emotion, is a stroke of poetic practicality. There’s no mask. The Audigo mic captures everything: string noise, room tone, even the air between the notes.

Hannon’s bond with Dickey Betts runs through the heart of the song. It’s not just that the SG he plays once belonged to Betts, it’s that you can hear the lessons in how he phrases each lick. There’s a lyrical quality to the way he bends and releases, especially near the end. Like a wave goodbye.

Reflections, out September 12, promises more of this wide-open intimacy. It’s the kind of record you’d want on a road trip through badlands, or spinning in the background as you mend a fence. Not because it’s wallpaper, but because it knows how to leave space.