Still Like It

Summary

Trista Rhodes’ debut album Still Like It is a folk-country collection that wears honesty like a badge and grit like a second skin. Across ten songs, she sifts through joy, loss, work, love, and legacy, never polishing away the rough edges that make life real. Her voice carries both bite and tenderness, like a bartender who’s seen it all but still finds reasons to smile.

The album begins with the title track, Still Like It, a defiant anthem about holding onto joy in a world that tells you to grow up and hide it. From there, she turns her gaze outward in Your Job Is Not Your Life, calling out the grind that steals people’s days, before turning inward again in What I Meant to Say, a quiet conversation with her own inner voice.

Songs like At the Mercy of Happiness and Chips in the Box meditate on the fleeting nature of joy and fortune, while What I Can’t Hold pushes back against materialism, grounding meaning in the intangible. With Certain People, Trista salutes the rare souls who truly see her, and in How to Waste Your Time she names the traps that drain a life of shine.

By Mile Markers, she’s out on the road, finding proof of life in motion itself, every stretch of highway a reminder she’s still here, still leaving signs. The album closes with What Will I Leave Behind, a tender question whispered to the dark—what echoes remain when the lights go down?

Together, these songs form more than a debut record; they form a philosophy. Still Like It is Trista’s reminder that even in a world quick to dismiss soft hearts and wasted hours, there is beauty in the honest telling, resilience in small joys, and a kind of gold only found in the stories we leave behind.