Shannon Lay: June 28, 2024 Tubby’s
Shannon Lay’s new single “Mirrors” obtained a whole lot of mess around my home this Spring. It’s superbly recorded and feels like the daylight that filters by the bushes and lights up my kitchen whereas I prepare dinner. So it was a reasonably 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 possibly you need to give attention to her super vocal management?
I’ll begin with the guitar enjoying as a result of I spent a lot of the evening making an attempt to know 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 tune felt like a spotlight, however a selected second felt most affirmative. After a quick acknowledgment of Kingston’s parking woes (an area scorching subject), she settled into “Come Collectively” off 2017’s “Residing Water” and one way or the other, what began as a dialogue of parking tickets was a second the place may collectively mirror on the entire exterior pressures and ills. We may 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 sneakers
Come collectively”
I’d like to offer a particular shout-out to the Tubby’s crowd on this specific night. Typically talking, recording solo acoustic singer-songwriters in a bar is an train in futility. You possibly can 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
Because of 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 Permit
- One thing On Your Thoughts^
*Elliott Smith
^Karen Dalton
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