Shannon Lay’s new single “Mirrors” obtained numerous mess around my home this Spring. It’s superbly recorded and appears like the daylight that filters by 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 enjoying? Or perhaps it is best to deal with her super vocal management?
I’ll begin with the guitar enjoying as a result of I spent a lot of the night time making an attempt to grasp it. Her technical command appeared easy however was by no means overshadowed by the profoundly emotional resonance of her enjoying. Her enjoying 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 selected 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 by some means, what began as a dialogue of parking tickets changed into a second the place might collectively mirror on the entire outdoors 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 provide a particular shout-out to the Tubby’s crowd on this explicit night. Typically talking, recording solo acoustic singer-songwriters in a bar is an train in futility. You’ll be able to 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
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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