Nobody likes getting told what to think. William Tyler's lush guitar arrangements are calibrated to provoke an emotional response, but they leave plenty of space to welcome each listener's unique reaction. On Wednesday night he closed his set at The Cedar with this song, "Country of Illusion." He introduced it by sharing context, not answers. Here is my attempt to paraphrase:
A lot of times people think that because my songs don't have any words they're not about anything, but that's not really true. Sometimes my songs are about relationships or whatever, sometimes they're just evocative of a landscape. This song I wrote during a long road trip and I was reading a book about peak oil...I was thinking a lot about how a lot of the country thinks things are this way and they can't imagine how they could be any other way....
And I also think that we just have a lot of nostalgia, and a lot of that's cultural and a lot of that's personal. So I'm just trying to reconcile some of that.
No comments:
Post a Comment