Ana Egge's Vocal Captures The Sweet Sorrow of False True Love On Too Sad For The Public’s “Old Forty”

Watch The “Old Forty” Video, Directed By Janie Geiser, HERE

Vol 2. Yet and Still Out July 28th via StorySound Records

Too Sad For The Public, Joined By Egge, Will Perform Live At Jalopy in Brooklyn On July 29 // More Info HERE

Today, Too Sad For The Public share “Old Forty,” the latest preview from Vol. 2 - Yet and Still, out July 28 on StorySound Records. “Old Forty” features lead vocals from Ana Egge, who poignantly portrays the sorrow that comes from the urge both for loving and leaving. A sparse, harmonic-laden guitar line is undergirded by slow-moving long low unison lines of synthesizers, bowed bass, and trombone. This deep sub-current provides a sense of unease that hints at oblivion. 

Directed by Janie Geiser, the video for “Old Forty” is a moving collage of rustic imagery imbued with an almost spectral quality, an apt metaphor for the past lives of the ever-evolving folk compositions Too Sad For The Public tackle. Watch the video for “Old Forty” here.

Says Too Sad For The Public’s Dick Connette of “Old Forty”:

“The original for this was by Richard Williams from the late 1970s field recording project Drop on Down in Florida. For years I had admired the guitar part and had been puzzled but ultimately convinced by the lyrics, an oddly eloquent expression of ambivalence. When I handed it over to Ana Egge, she jumped quick and landed hard - the words spoke to her of her own years-ago on-the-road romances, and the guitar part was something she could really dig into.”

On Saturday, July 29, Egge will join Connette and Too Sad For The Public for a special live performance of selections from Vol. 2 - Yet and Still.

WHAT: Too Sad For The Public

WHERE: Jalopy Theatre — 315 Columbia St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

WHEN: 6:00PM ET to 8:00PM ET

MORE INFO:  https://www.viewcy.com/e/yet_and_still__dick

Too Sad For The Public is the project helmed by Dick Connette of StorySound Records, the label behind a GRAMMY-winning record by Loudon Wainwright III as well as acclaimed releases by Gabriel Kahane, Margaret Glaspy, Dan Tepfer, yMusic, and so many more. Dick Connette’s fascination with folk songs goes back almost 40 years to when he shifted his focus from NYC’s downtown avant garde scene to researching and performing traditional American music. 

Yet and Still  — which features yMusic’s Rob Moose (Paul Simon, Phoebe Bridgers), Steve Elson (Gov’t Mule, David Bowie), Steven Bernstein (Levon Helm, Rufus Wainwright), Dan Levine (They Might Be Giants, David Byrne), Rayna Gellert (Uncle Earl, Joachim Cooder), Chaim Tannenbaum (Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Loudon Wainwright III) and Billy Martin (Medeski Martin & Wood) — is a celebration of the inventive permutations and idiosyncratic processes of American musics, as well as Connette’s own imaginative approach to interpretation. Moments of sublime serendipity abound as Connette and his collaborators explore authorial elasticity in American traditional and popular music, reveling in the gradual content shifts that songs undergo as they pass from performer to performer, generation to generation, and audience to audience.

 Previous previews from Yet and Still include the singles “Railroad Bill (pt2),”which features vocals from Chaim Tannenbaum and brings to mind a rustic, folklorically-minded version of NEU!, and “G. Burns in the Bottom (pt1),”which weaves a tale about souls in the balance over a jaunty rhythm charged by oom-pah euphonium and ramshackle percussion.

Pre-order Vol 2. Yet and Still here.

Vol. 2 - Yet and Still Tracklist:

1. Uncle Bunting (pt1)

Rob Moose - mandolin, violin, banjo, guitar, bass

2. Shake Sugaree

Ana Egge - vocal, guitar

Dick Connette - piano

Lorenzo Wolff - bass

Ethan Eubanks - drums

3. Hey Now (pt1)

Steven Bernstein - trumpet, vocal

Frank Greene - trumpet, vocal

Curtis Fowlkes - trombone, vocal

Jeffery Miller - trombone, vocal

Michael Blake - tenor saxophone, vocal

Erik Lawrence - baritone saxophone, vocal

Marcus Rojas - tuba, vocal

Billy Martin - drums/percussion, vocal

4. G. Burns in the Bottom (pt1)

Ana Egge - lead vocal, guitar

Lucy Wainwright Roche - backing vocal

Suzzy Roche - backing vocal

Dick Connette - harmonium

Dan Levine - euphonium

Lorenzo Wolff - baritone guitar, bass

Bill Ruyle - footsteps, cymbal pair, bass drum

5. Uncle Bunting (pt2)

Chaim Tannenbaum - lead vocal, harmonica

Ana Egge - backing vocal

Rayna Gellert - backing vocal, violin, viola

6. Old Forty

Ana Egge  - vocal, guitar

Dan Levine - trombone

Dick Connette - synth

Lorenzo Wolff - synth, bass

7. Railroad Bill (pt1)

Ana Egge - vocal, guitar

Dick Connette - piano, maracas

Lorenzo Wolff - baritone guitar, bass

Ethan Eubanks - shakers, drums

8. Uncle Bunting (pt3)

Steve Elson - piccolo, baritone sax, tenor sax

Curtis Fowlkes - trombone

Marcus Rojas - euphonium, tuba

Ethan Eubanks - orchestral bells, drums

9. Hey Now (pt2)

Ana Egge - lead vocal

Lucy Wainwright Roche - backing vocal

Suzzy Roche - backing vocal

Lorenzo Wolff - bass

Kory Grossman - percussion

Jeff Kraus - percussion

Paul Pizzuti - percussion

Ethan Eubanks - tambourine, drums

10. Railroad Bill (pt2)

Chaim Tannenbaum - vocal, harmonica

Ana Egge - rhythm guitar

Lorenzo Wolff - lead guitar, rhythm guitar, synth, bass

Dick Connette - cymbal crunch, synth

Ethan Eubanks - shakers

Bill Ruyle - bass drum rim clicks

11. Train Your Child

Rayna Gellert - vocal, violin

Kieran Kane - guitar

12. G. Burns in the Bottom (pt2)

Jacob Garchik - trombone, euphonium

Clark Gayton - trombone, euphonium

Dan Levine - trombone, euphonium

Marcus Rojas - tuba, euphonium

Jerome Jennings - tambourine, drums