Shannon Shaw discusses the latest Shannon & The Clams album, the beautiful and brutal 'The Moon Is In The Wrong Place.'
When I showed up to the Agora Theatre on Cleveland, Ohio’s east side in March 2018 to watch Dan Auerbach perform a solo set, I didn’t know a lick about Shannon & The Clams. But being the kind of person I was—and still am—I listened to all five of the band’s albums to get hip before the gig so I could jam along with the opening act.
“So, when it was my turn to record my leads, I just thought no one was paying any attention to me,” she continues. “I was like, ‘No one cares, no one’s paying attention’—because I would sing a lead once or twice and Dan would be like, ‘Great!’ and move on. Eventually I was like, ‘Are you guys even paying attention? I only did that twice.’ And everyone was like, ‘Well, you’re actually.
One of the first songs Shaw wrote on the farm was “Bean Fields,” a strong contender for one of the best pop-rock tracks of the year. Seriously, it’s a splendid, baroque-garage romp that’s so catchy that the absolute punch of the “Meet me in the bean fields in the shank of the evening / Gonna bring bouquets and bottles of wine, talkin’ bout you all the time” chorus might not hit your gut immediately.
“The sentiment is really bittersweet,” Shaw says. “It’s this shared, cute, funny moment I had with Joe right before we lost him, that was him really trying to understand things that are really hard to understand. And I loved it so much. I wrote it down and was like ‘I’m never forgetting that you said that.’ And it’s true, I will never, ever forget that moment of him asking me that.
“When I was a little kid, probably four or five, and I’d get in trouble and get sent to my room, I would self-soothe by singing to myself and making up songs about my situation. I didn’t actually write songs until I was 24, 25, but that really was always a part of how I handled hard things,” she continues. “When I was a kid, I would draw pictures of my situation, where I had to be victorious in some way in the end.
“I was sad I wasn’t gonna get to share with all our family and friends all the hard work that was going to represent me and Joe together, something we truly created together,” Shaw continues. “I was bitter that he was never gonna get to hear this song that I wrote for him, and I wrote it using the chords that he taught me on guitar. It was really meaningful.
France Dernières Nouvelles, France Actualités
Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.
Shannon & the Clams Made a Playlist You’ll Want to Send to Your LoverFor this week's SOUND ADVICE, Shannon & the Clams sent us into astral depths to celebrate their album, 'The Moon is in the Wrong Place.'
Lire la suite »
Nature’s 3D printer: Marine worms form their bristles piece by pieceIt turns out that certain marine worm species develop bristles piece by piece, similar to the process of 3D printing.
Lire la suite »
Nature's 3D printer: Bristle worms form bristles piece by pieceA new interdisciplinary study led by molecular biologist Florian Raible from the Max Perutz Labs at the University of Vienna provides exciting insights into the bristles of the marine annelid worm Platynereis dumerilii. Specialized cells, called chaetoblasts, control the formation of the bristles.
Lire la suite »
Nature's 3D printer: Bristle worms form bristles piece by pieceMolecular biologists provide exciting insights into the bristles of the marine annelid worm Platynereis dumerilii. Specialized cells, so-called chaetoblasts, control the formation of the bristles. Their mode of operation is astonishingly similar to that of a technical 3D printer.
Lire la suite »
Piece By Piece Trailer Previews LEGO Pharrell Williams MovieThe first trailer for Piece By Piece previews a new LEGO animated movie about the life of Pharrell Williams.
Lire la suite »
Pharrell Williams Biopic: First 'Piece by Piece' Trailer Features Gwen Stefani, JAY-Z and More'Piece by Piece' tells the story of Pharrell Williams' life via LEGO animation for a unique biopic experience.
Lire la suite »