Nashville, TN - May 6, 2026 - “I picked up a guitar and almost instinctively played the riff like it was a song I already knew,” says multi-hyphenate artist Trever M. Keith of the beginnings of his newest single, “Only Time.” “It just flowed from there.” What came out is a quiet, unflinching look at a life worn down by struggle—years of bad luck, mistimed chances, and self-inflicted wounds that have left the song’s narrator older, exhausted, and running on fumes. The most “modern” sounding song of Keith’s to date, “Only Time” still falls well within the Americana world he’s been crafting for his upcoming album, We Drank From A Poisoned Well, with his flat-picked guitar framed by a lonesome fiddle and a thumpy upright bass.
The refrain, “You’re the only time I ever got it right,” becomes the song’s anchor; not a boast of achievement, but a humble acknowledgment that true fulfillment comes from those rare instances when we touch another life with real tenderness, when closeness matters more than the length of the stay. “Only Time” celebrates the importance of that connection as the one thing that can redeem an otherwise unforgiving existence, proving that even in the late hours, a single moment of mutual humanity can make the whole long fight worthwhile. “The pain doesn’t disappear, the road doesn’t get easier, but the echo of that shared goodness becomes the quiet reason to endure,” says Keith.
“Only Time” is the latest single from Keith’s upcoming album, We Drank From A Poisoned Well, an earnest and beautifully executed return to his roots in country and Americana music. Spending the past fifteen years living in Nashville, Tennessee, and absorbing all of the music of Music City, not only helped Keith reconnect to the era of country music on which he grew up, but also led to the discovery of loads more music from that time period that he’d initially missed out on; people like Faron Young, Connie Smith, Jim Reeves, and Lefty Frizzell. “My reconnection and discovery of this music has inspired what I think is a true-to-form classic country record that takes me back to a simpler time in life,” says Keith.
