We’re pleased to bring you the premiere of Greg Laswell‘s new music video for his song “Play That One Again” (watch below). The track is taken from his latest album Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet, released on March 4th through Vanguard Records.
Greg Laswell comments on the song & video: “The original demo of ‘Play That One Again’ just ended up going right onto the record as is. When it came time to record the ‘final’ version, I had already become attached. I don’t know that I added anything at all… in fact, I ended up taking all the instruments out for the last verse. The lyric video was done by my friend Lauren Park. I thought the ‘distorted nostalgia’ of it fit nicely.”
Purchase Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet on iTunes.
Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet Track Listing:
1. Dodged A Bullet
2. Lifetime Ago
3. Out of Line
4. And So I Tried To Sleep
5. Watch You Burn
6. Not The Same Man
7. Birthday Wish
8. Take It Easy
9. Play That One Again
10. Not Surprised
It’s not important to reveal the specific catalyst for Greg Laswell’s latest record, Everyone Thinks I Dodged a Bullet – but rather to focus anew on what makes him one of the most uncompromising songwriters of these modern times. You may recognize a bit of Leonard Cohen in his tormented baritone. You might think of Tom Waits when you sense how deep down in the gut these songs come from.
But if there is a quality that still and ever marks out Laswell’s writing, it is an ability to use words like unrepentant paper cuts. Should you be at the receiving end, perhaps you might not at first feel the sting; but it will burn like hell later.
Imagine the coldness of being the subject of such biting vitriol as, “I’m gonna be lazy when I write about you.” Imagine that you mean so much nothing to someone you once meant the world to.
And how would you process the sting of, “What are you going to do when gravity gets to you?” Meanness, after all, is sometimes utterly justified – and in Greg Laswell’s world, no punches are pulled for the sake of possible hurt feelings.
But if you feel the same as does he, the words feel like little (or maybe enormous) triumphs. His pen is mighty – especially when it’s aimed at the heart. And the songs urge you to join in pushing the point in deeper.
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