From the recording Blue Highway / Is Now the Time / MP320
Blue Highway
Is Now the Time
Beth Snapp & Wayne Taylor (lizzbethlee Music Publishing/BMI, Forty W. A. T. Music/BMI)
Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by Professor Dan Boner
Recorded at the ETSU Recording Laboratory, Johnson City, TN
Release date: 10/21/2025
Catalog #DTR00203
UPC: 708857002030
ISRC: QZR8K2561001
Tim Stafford - guitar - baritone vocal
Jason Burleson - banjo
Shawn Lane - mandolin - tenor vocal
Gary Hultman - dobro
Wayne Taylor - bass - lead vocal
Song Bio:
Blue Highway’s new single, “Is Now The Time,” is a heartfelt reflection on the life of a touring musician: dreams, sacrifice, and the seemingly endless grind of life on the road. With raw candor, the song addresses the question every artist eventually has to confront: when to push on and when to let go. A moving, beautifully crafted bluegrass tune that speaks to anyone chasing a dream or weighing its cost.
Lyrics
A young and restless spirit with a guitar on my knee
Are the words I write for everyone or maybe just for me
All the late nights on this highway all the hours in this car
Playing to another guys that works behind the bar
I keep dreaming of that moment when I’m standing in the light
I know it’s true that things worth having don’t come overnight
I can’t help but ask myself how long is long enough
Is now the time to hang in there or time to hang it up
I’ve kept inching forward but how do you compare
A few less wooden bar stools to a few more county fairs
Of course my family must come first and I’ve got bills to pay
I have to have a 9 to 5 but it sure gets in the way
I guess I’m getting older not the kid I used to be
How much time do I have left in all reality
I can’t help but ask myself how long is long enough
Is now the time to hang in there or time to hang it up
After 30 years of travel a million miles or more
I’ll tell you young musicians careful what you’re wishing for
I’ve seen the whole world over on someone else’s dime
‘Cause I’ve learned to turn a phrase and sometimes make it rhyme
My age is catching up with me of that there is no doubt
So many things I’d like to do and years of missing out
I can’t help but ask myself how long is long enough
Is now the time to hang in there or time to hang it up