8/1/2023 0 Comments Dry road to nowhere![]() ![]() And there’s some guitar stuff that Josh did that is really classic, including some risks where he asked me if I felt okay about having them in there. The recording ended up reminding me a little bit of the Jayhawks-or ‘90s alt-country-in this way that I love. ![]() James Goodwin, who engineered it, were like, “We need a tighter rock sound for this.” It was really fun to record that one, and it just took off in the studio. Similar to “Gentle Like the Drugs”-with the imagery of different parts of the country-“You and Me” has a lot of movement in it, and it’s got this driving beat, which, when I recorded it with Josh Kaufman, we did it at this studio-the Isokon in Kingston- and D. Being away in a joyful way and then coming back home, I was thinking about how I felt like I was on the other side of some difficult things and in this new place of really being able to enjoy myself and being in love and feeling really positive about it. The hook, the “gentle like the drugs” line, I wasn’t really referring to drugs in particular, but more of the debauchery that happens while being alone when my partner is away: staying up late, eating mac ‘n’ cheese, the gentle-not destructive-habits that slip back.Ī lot of these songs relate to being away and coming home, but I was thinking about the image of tour bus flying through the country and thinking about that Lucinda Williams song, “Metal Firecracker,” which was her description of a bus, as well. When I got back from that tour and I was reflecting on it, my partner left for a work trip and I was thinking about the idea of being away, having this incredible experience and then, also, the beauty of being able to come back and fly back into life, which I was excited about doing, as well. It being post-COVID, it felt like there was a real warmth and excitement and genuine kind of love that was forming. And we would bump into each other in the middle of nowhere in Utah, we hung out together on our nights off and the shows were great. I had never met Dave and Pedro the Lion before, and I wasn’t even that familiar with their music prior to the tour, but our crew and their crew just instantly clicked and it became this magical thing of both of our vans just sailing off into these beautiful horizons. It was magical to drive through there and, at the same time, we were having an amazing time on this tour. I have been to the West Coast a bunch of times, but I had never been to the Arizona desert and southern Utah. It was a really, really beautiful landscape tour. My band and I did this tour with Pedro the Lion and Arizona, Colorado. Check out Cornfield’s track-by-track breakdown and stream the album below. To celebrate today’s release of Could Have Done Anything-out via Double Double Whammy/Polyvinyl-she sat down with us to provide more context, inspiration and background for all nine songs. Thankfully, Cornfield continues to open up her world to the rest of us, and it’s a gift every time. Few songwriters can fuse such clear-eyed love songs with engrossing, vivid moments of loneliness, geographical beauty and gratitude. Written and recorded post-lockdown, Could Have Done Anything arrives like a second coming-of-age. She takes the smallest moments and finds everlasting beauty within the margins of her own musings. Her work, it’s emotional, poised and alive. A song like “Cut and Dry” tenderly pairs a timeless instrumental with a nostalgic reflection on leaving people behind and growing up.Įver since Cornfield released Two Horses in 2011, she has been painting beautiful portraits around the melancholy and joy of leaving and returning. Pulling influence and inspiration from Tapestry and Car Wheels On a Gravel Road, Cornfield has a distinctive lyrical approach that stands alone in the contemporary folk-rock sphere. On Could Have Done Anything, the follow-up to her acclaimed 2021 album Highs in the Minuses, Canadian songwriter Charlotte Cornfield spends 30 minutes reflecting on a lifetime’s worth of memories. ![]()
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