Cass McCombs : Dreams-Come-True-Girl (feat. Karen black)
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Warning! Full On Folk Revival In Progress.
In case you haven't noticed, there's a full on folk revival going on 'round these parts. It's not really new; Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst got the whole neo-folk going way back in 2002 with his album Lifted... but 2008 was the year when things really went crazy with bands like Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, M. Ward etc., all seeming to pop out of nowhere from relative obscurity.
One of the side benefits of this is that artists who have toiled away for years, now have a larger and more rapt audience for their wears as the borders around what constitutes folk stretch and reform themselves. Such is the case with Cass McCombs, a Baltimore based Californian song-writer who's 4th album dropped July 7th.
It's one of those records that is both unsassuming and introspective with a quiet ache seeming to permeate every note. This is never more true than on this track, which features the actress Karen Black (to great effect) in the second half of the song. "Dreams-Come-True-Girl" manages to feel like something The Everly Brothers would have recorded under water in 1/2 tempo. Melancholy, foggy and down right addictive-sitting right at the apex of where folk, pop, rock and country merge seamlessly.
It slays me a little more with every listen...
by Cass McCombs from Catacombs
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