Anytime I’m feeling pain, I’ll pick up an instrument and for whatever reason,
I’ll find an ease in playing the same thing over and over. Sometimes for just a moment and others the whole day. Cut Your Hair is one such song that reaches deep into the core of my being. When we recorded the song for Warrior Down, I had to go into the studio by myself and it was incredibly difficult to even get the words out. This was a huge contrast to the bombastic tracks we were laying down at that time and so I’ve been really shy about the stripped back and revealing nature of the song.
Cut Your Hair is a song about my grandpa and me. It’s a dedication to survivors and how our stories are tied to each other through Canada's Residential School system. This is not something I’ve been able to share in a way that is comfortable. Until working with my brother Daniel from Zoon. Our experiences as Anishinaabeg means that a lot can go unsaid between us. Daniel knew how important this song was to me and how lonely and painful it felt. How we wear the weight of our ancestors in every step we take and how those schools tore the culture from our families. Together we’ve been able to pick each other up and navigate these challenging experiences. In his style, Daniel added the missing elements that I had been searching for all along. I’m really proud of how this turned out and so excited for Zoon and all that’s to come for them.
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If I were in a band like the Golden Gate Wingmen, playing songs from the Grateful Dead catalogue (the greatest songbook in the world) and other forever-glittering specimens of the art of song, like Dylan tunes, solo Beatles picks (Nobody Told Me, Any Road), Zevon, and Van Morrison's Beautiful Vision record, I would also stuff our setlists with songs from Visions of the Higher Dream. And I mean all of them. Not one song would pale in that company. That's how commanding and classic this album is. Grain Sparrow
The New York songwriter appeals with sunny power chords, but it’s the direct vulnerability that get you in the end. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jul 25, 2019
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In the half century since Wings gave us Red Rose Speedway, I don't think the world has been invited to as sumptuous a feast of melody as Daniel Romano's Dandelion. And what beautiful, tender words. "There are some folks—can you believe it?—that are acting like it doesn't matter I'm in love!" By the way, make sure you listen to this album in full. Side B gains so much by accumulation. Grain Sparrow