LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Over Rainbows and Rainier’ - Damien Jurado

We love this wonderful song from US singer-songwriter Damien Jurado taken from this latest album ‘The Horizon Just Laughed’ released back in May.

Based in Seattle, urban folk singer/songwriter Damien Jurado has quietly built up one of the strongest catalogues on the indie scene earning high critical praise. Nick Drake had a definite impact on much of his work, but Damien modeled his career on more idiosyncratic, unpredictable figures like Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, and Randy Newman. Songwriters who followed their own muse wherever it took them, whether fans and critics enjoyed it or not.

His independence was born at least in part from the influence of punk, and one of the results was a concern for emotional authenticity that led him to delve into other people's lives instead of his own. Many of Damiens’s best songs spun concise, literate tales of quiet, everyday despair, which often earned him comparisons to short story writer Raymond Carver. But his storytelling bent, not to mention his ambivalence toward confessional material, arose from a stronger grounding in traditional folk than spiritual compatriots like Elliott Smith or Cat Power.

With detours into pop, roots rock, full-fledged electric indie rock, psychedelia, and even found-sound experiments, Damien has ensured that his body of work was impossible to accurately pin down.

Photo credit: Elise Tyler

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