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Simon Joyner is among Americas best songwriters, so says Gillian Welch, Conor Oberst, Kevin Morby, and others. With his new double album, Step Into The Earthquake, he strikes for the personal while acknowledging that the times they are a-changin around us again. Things are leaning shitty right now, and the characters in Joyners songs experience the dissolution of comfort amid anxious concerns regarding our turbulent times.To record, Joyners band, The Ghosts, holed up with longtime collaborator, Michael Krassner (Boxhead Ensemble), in Omahas ARC Studio, developing songs from skeletal foundations to full-on group efforts.Joyners vision may be dark but it stops short of nihilism. Where do we go from here? The best move toward answering that question is knowing where we stand right now. This expansive album offers a poets truthful view, however disconcerting, that to survive whatever is coming for us, we have to confront and understand it first. So, go ahead and step into the earthquake.
Step Into the Earthquake by Simon Joyner
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