Shannon Lay’s new single “Mirrors” bought a whole lot of mess around my home this Spring. It’s fantastically recorded and seems like the daylight that filters by way of the timber and lights up my kitchen whereas I cook dinner. So it was a fairly 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 possibly it’s best to concentrate on her large vocal management?
I’ll begin with the guitar taking part in as a result of I spent many of the evening attempting 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 track felt like a spotlight, however a specific second felt most affirmative. After a quick acknowledgment of Kingston’s parking woes (an area scorching matter), she settled into “Come Collectively” off 2017’s “Residing Water” and in some way, what began as a dialogue of parking tickets changed into a second the place might collectively mirror on the entire exterior pressures and ills. We might 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 present a particular shout-out to the Tubby’s crowd on this explicit night. Usually talking, recording solo acoustic singer-songwriters in a bar is an train in futility. You may solely achieve this a lot limiting, however everybody was extremely respectful of the songs and performers, and you may hear that within the recording. The standard is superb, so please get pleasure from.
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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
Due to Tubby’s FOH engineer Wil for the board patch
- A Thread to Discover
- Positive
- Angeles*
- The moons detriment
- Recording 15
- Come Collectively
- Mirrors
- Coast
- Simpsons Interlude
- All this life goin down
- Uncommon to wake
- Awaken and Enable
- One thing On Your Thoughts^
*Elliott Smith
^Karen Dalton
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