Single I M. Lockwood Porter – Cried Through The Night
Graag even de aandacht voor M. Lockwood Porter. Binnenkort komt deze indrukwekkende performer met zijn nieuwe album “Sisyphus Happy”. Dat wordt 14 oktober. Alweer zo’n fraaie release van Black Mesa Records.
Een scheiding, de dood van zijn vader, een door Trump verdeeld land, een boek van Albert Camus dat veel indruk maakte. Dat alles bij elkaar leidde tot ‘Sisyphus Happy’, het formidabele nieuwe album van de Californische singer/songwriter M. Lockwood Porter. Hij kreeg wederom de hulp van John Moreland en die haalde het beste in hem boven. Persoonlijke teksten en rock met country- en folk-invloeden. M. Lockwood Porter ontpopt zich steeds meer als de Jeff Tweedy van de Westkust, een eigenzinnig talent dat nieuwe Americana-wegen durft in te slaan. Sisyphus Happy is een indrukwekkende plaat.
Website: https://www.mlockwoodporter.com/
Cried Through The Night
This song is specifically about a moment of clarity that I had after I broke up with my now-wife
(before we eventually got back together) and abruptly moved back to Oklahoma from California.
It was a very difficult and dramatic thing to do, and it’s almost like I knew that it was something
that I had to do to learn some lessons. Taking that step broke something loose inside of me and
eventually helped me see my priorities clearly. I realized that I had been living in a dream world
for many years – valuing some imagined future life more than the real life I was actually living.
Everything was very raw at the time. I started meditating and cobbling together some
ramshackle version of spirituality that I explore in a lot of the songs on the album. It felt fitting to
start the album with this song because that moment of clarity unleashed a lot of the feelings and
ideas that I then attempted to examine and understand in writing these songs.
M. Lockwood Porter – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Wurlitzer, organ
John Moreland – drums, bass, percussion, vocals
Ian Taylor Sutton – pedal steel
