Talk about possibilities! With his latest single, Award-winning Nova Scotian country artist Thomas Stajcer asks the most profound of questions: “If I Had One Bottle More.” The answer, if such a proposition might truly be fathomed by mere mortals and should we allow ourselves to believe in something greater than ourselves, is a resounding “absolutely almost anything within reason, but then again, maybe not.”
While the theory has been put to the test on literally more occasions than anyone can remember, there will always be more opportunities and more people willing to try. Stajcer’s stance on the matter seems to be that there is telling what he might do, given that opportunity, and a bottle might be the difference between a misguided after-hours phone call and any number infinite number of potentialities that could involve alcohol, bad ideas, and sufficient motivation.
As one particular philosophy professor put it: no matter how many times a penguin walks through a door, be it a thousand penguins, or a thousand million penguins, there’s no certainty that the next thing to come through that door will be a penguin. Stajcer is prepared to accept that fate, and he’s willing to that because whatever possibility is beyond that threshold, be it bottle or door, seems preferable to the present situation. The grass is almost always greener, especially if you’ve been drinking.
“It’s about that time when you’re flirting with drunken belligerence, deciding whether or not you’re going to do something stupid, and you’re taking a good hard look at what brought you here to this point. You realize you’re flawed and yet you’re still not sure if you want to change those flaws or simply own them,” says Stajcer. “I wrote this song from inspiration to final word in about an hour. It’s the reason you keep a guitar in the living room.”
“If I Had One Bottle More” is serves as the B-Side to Stajcer’s insightful tongue-in-cheek track “Who Will Listen To Country Music When Trucks Drive Themselves?,” which proposes that a whole genre of music might meet its fate if left in the hands of robotic truck drivers and bartenders (not to be confused with the bots at the server farm, who are always more than happy to be your biggest fan).
Both tracks are available in physical form as a 45″ single, available to pre-order HERE.