I got to play some of my songs for City Light Sessions. This take of Paul & Sally’s Mournful Song turned out really nice.
“ The Alaska-born [Andrew] Vait has built an audience in the Pacific Northwest over the past few years as the singer for Eternal Fair, a retro-rock act that blends Pink Floyd with My Morning Jacket. But when he began stockpiling material that didn’t work for Eternal Fair, Vait decided to release a solo record, his second. And it’s a strong album, with 10 folk-rock songs that are evocative, soulful, and melodic, bringing to mind singer/songwriters like Cat Stevens, Rufus Wainwright, and Warren Zevon, whom he references in the lyrics of “Young Girls,” one of the album’s best songs.”
We did an EXTREMELY short run of these screen print t-shirts by Fritha Strand-Davern. They’ll be available at the show tonight for $15 / purchase an album and a shirt for $20.
Big Big Plans
We could see the sun
When we were young and raw
And it looked so small
Now we know that it’s not
Well our deception was strong
And we got big and tall
So we made our plans
And like warriors we fought
And thought we’d conquer them all
We might be the ones
Who catch us all the stars
And make some big big plans
We might grow to like
The things about ourselves
We thought we’d always hate
And think up all the lines
That nobody ever wrote
And we could write them all
We might be the ones
Who catch us all the stars
And make some big big plans
We might be the ones
Who make the mothers scream and shout
And clap their hands
We might be the ones
Who gots us something to say
To our one million fans
We might be the ones
Who catch us all the stars
And make some big big plans
We might grow to like
The things about ourselves
We thought we’d always hate
And think up all the lines
That nobody ever wrote
And we could write them all
We live for what they say
And when they’re not around
They say things that are so absurd
We still might be the ones
Who say extraordinary things
And use some big big words
CD cover design by Fritha Strand-Davern and Brent Rusinow. We wanted to get a little “closer to the setting sun”, dig?
Long Walk Home
If you haven’t heard by now, the first single from my forthcoming record, Closer To The Setting Sun, is available for streaming here and on my Facebook music page (http://www.facebook.com/andrewvait). Please enjoy and share with your friends!
The track will be available for free download starting on Wednesday this week with a new track available for streaming next Saturday.
Long Walk Home features Brent Rusinow on upright bass, Andy King on drums, RL Heyer on guitar and backing vocals, Steve Norman on pedal steel, and Tony Kevin Jr. on backing vocals. From where I’m sitting, it’s an exciting qualitative measurement of what’s to come on June 10th at Columbia City Theater.
The song itself is about a group of brave adventurers who are commissioned by the Governor to cross the desert, tear open the fabric of space and time, cross into the unknown, gather the secrets of the universe and bring them back to share with the people so that they may sleep peacefully at night. You know, nothing out of the ordinary.
