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