LaFarge delays album one month, cites manufacturing issues
The release was originally slated for release tomorrow.
The 10-song set was produced and arranged by LaFarge and Chris Seefried and recorded in Chicago and Los Angeles. The collection is the follow up to LaFarge's 2020 studio LP "Rock Bottom Rhapsody."
The song "Drink of You" premiered today. "Still in the sway of my 'Rock Bottom Rhapsody' I suppose, in both mind and spirit, having just recorded the album back in early 2019, here's another self-indulgent heartbreak song," Lafarge said. "Deep in the bottle and the only way I wanted to get out was by drinking my way out and singing about it. I don't drink anymore, but it's still an enjoyable song to sing because of the ¾ time.
LarFarge told NPR Music, "This album is a result of my 2020 experience. Before the pandemic, I was in a dark place but the pandemic actually created the much needed space for me to reflect. Turns out that being completely sedentary for once was a good thing. I found peace in the stillness. I was able to recalibrate what it is I do and why I'm doing it. Who I'm to do it with and most importantly, who I'm doing it for."
LaFarge has your dates starting Oct. 2 in Paducah, Ky., winding up with two nights in Toronto Nov. 19-20.
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CD reviews for Pokey LaFarge
A retro feel exists on Pokey LaFarge's "In the Blossom of Their Shade" with its pleasing mix of folk, blues, jazz and country. Composed largely while LaFarge was isolated in Austin when the pandemic hit, the Illinois native endeavored to convey a mostly positive outlook. This is best exemplified in the bluesy "Fine To Me", reminiscent of Tony Joe White's "Polk Salad Annie" and Dale Hawkins' "Suzie Q" in which LaFarge credits his mate with ...
Pokey La Farge is best described as a musical archivist in every sense of the term. He and his band were described by one source as "artfully dodgy ambassadors for old-time music, presenting and representing the glories of hot swing, early jazz and ragtime blues" who have "made riverboat chic cool again," and indeed, they live up to that description. They recreate the kind of aural imagery that takes their listeners back in time to an earlier era of decades past when ...
A good many musical artists are looking for a hot new trend to champion, but Pokey LaFarge's only interest from the beginning of his career has been to bring a fresh perspective to folk, blues and soul with a swingy, jazzy, poppy undercurrent. Over the past decade and a half, LaFarge's sound and the
band that helps him create it has evolved at a pace that reinforces the childhood nickname that he has adopted as his stage persona. That shouldn't be construed as a criticism; LaFarge ...
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