Shannon Lay’s new single “Mirrors” received a number of mess around my home this Spring. It’s fantastically recorded and appears like the daylight that filters by means of the bushes and lights up my kitchen whereas I prepare dinner. So it was a reasonably candy and well timed shock to see her coming to Tubby’s on a stacked triple invoice with Anna St. Luis and Shana Fullana.
Shannon’s songs are so intricately crafted that it’s needed to discover a single level to dissect them. Do you lead with the profoundly introspective lyrics or the mind-boggling finger-style guitar taking part in? Or perhaps it is best to give attention to her great vocal management?
I’ll begin with the guitar taking part in as a result of I spent a lot of the evening making an attempt to grasp it. Her technical command appeared easy however was by no means overshadowed by the profoundly emotional resonance of her taking part in. Her taking part in got here from a spot of pure vulnerability, drawing listeners in with the uncooked depth of her expression.
The set was drawn from her total catalog and included the aforementioned “mirrors” and stellar covers by Elliott Smith and Karen Dalton. Each music felt like a spotlight, however a specific second felt most affirmative. After a quick acknowledgment of Kingston’s parking woes (a neighborhood sizzling subject), she settled into “Come Collectively” off 2017’s “Dwelling Water” and in some way, what began as a dialogue of parking tickets become a second the place may collectively replicate on the entire outdoors pressures and ills. We may select to disregard these stressors and transfer ahead to positivity:
“All of us have sufficient
Come on shake your damaged shoulders
Come on transfer your damaged footwear
Come collectively”
I’d like to provide a particular shout-out to the Tubby’s crowd on this specific night. Usually talking, recording solo acoustic singer-songwriters in a bar is an train in futility. You possibly can solely achieve this a lot limiting, however everybody was extremely respectful of the songs and performers, and you’ll hear that within the recording. The standard is great, so please take pleasure in.
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Shannon Lay
2024-06-28
Tubby’s
Kingston, NY
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Recorded and produced by kliked for nyctaper.com
Because of Tubby’s FOH engineer Wil for the board patch
- A Thread to Discover
- Certain
- Angeles*
- The moons detriment
- Recording 15
- Come Collectively
- Mirrors
- Coast
- Simpsons Interlude
- All this life goin down
- Uncommon to wake
- Awaken and Permit
- One thing On Your Thoughts^
*Elliott Smith
^Karen Dalton
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