Nathan Bryce and Loaded Dice have released “Gone Since Texas”, a track that grew out of a real moment on the road and the complicated feelings that followed.
The song started with an email. Bryce sent songwriter Candace Crockett some lyric ideas rooted in an actual experience: a Texas show where he watched someone he cared about standing in the crowd, wearing a dragonfly pin in her hair. After the show, she drove back to Missouri. He kept touring. What should have felt normal instead felt like the beginning of an ending neither of them acknowledged out loud.
“What stayed with me was the realization that she wasn’t gone when she went back to Missouri,” Crockett says. “She was already gone in Texas before he even knew it. I wrote it on a flight to Vancouver Island in one creative burst. I sent him what was essentially a first pass, but it felt finished in a way we didn’t want to disturb.”
“Gone Since Texas” sits in that uncertain middle ground where one person is holding on and the other has already let go. The song doesn’t resolve anything because real life doesn’t always offer resolution. There’s no dramatic confrontation, no big moment of clarity. Just the slow, quiet realization that something was already slipping away.
Musically, Bryce and Loaded Dice blend Southern rock, blues, and country storytelling into something that feels lived in. Soulful guitar lines and steady rhythms give space for Bryce’s vocals to carry both vulnerability and restraint. The track includes one line that lands sharp and clean: “I’m in misery, while she’s in Missouri.”
After years of high-energy performances rooted in blues-driven rock, Nathan Bryce and Loaded Dice are bringing deeper emotional storytelling to their music while keeping the raw, unpolished edge that’s always defined them.
“Gone Since Texas” is available to stream and watch now!