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Being Younger

by Katherine Perkins

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This is a limited edition 12" LP, printed at Physical Music Products in Nashville, Tennessee. With cover photos by Katherine Emery.

    Includes digital pre-order of Being Younger. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around June 21, 2024

      $25 USD or more 

     

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    Pre-order of Being Younger. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases June 21, 2024

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1.
Being Younger
2.
Go Your Own Way
3.
Day by Day
4.
Lay it Down
5.
Hold On 04:09
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I read the news today that you're alright, But spent the week debating imminent flight, And now you believe That we all have a place in the meaning of life You came back to us from that strange height Alive with new eyes from seeing the night And I know there's weight, that gravity pulls from the other side, Oh but I want to keep you here Hold on, hold on, My love there's more love for you than the night is long. Hold on, hold on, You know there's more love for you than the night is long. You never know I guess what demons hide, Behind the whites of the most vibrant eyes, And I know there's weight, that gravity pulls from the other side, Oh but I want to keep you here Hold on, hold on My love there's more love for you than the night is long, Hold on, hold on, You know there's more love for you than the night is long. When it seems there's nothing that you can set right, And all the lonely weight falls heavy through the night, I know you might be dreaming ways to slip away, but I'll be dreaming ways to make you want to stay, Hold on, hold onMy love there's more love for you than the night is long, Hold on, hold on, You know there's more love for you than the night is long.
6.
City Nights
7.
Morning Morning
8.
Summer's End
9.
Sea Change
10.
Valley of Loss

about

The songs on Being Younger emerged in fits and starts, mostly sitting at the jangly piano in my living room, dreaming about collaboration from the vantage point of pandemic isolation. I heard drums and bass and horns and vocal harmonies, guitar and organ and lots of tambourine (my favorite weakness). I heard insistent grooves –– I was dreaming up music that people could dance to, a strange vision in that moment of time.

The songs on this album are personal reflections on the extended weird time we’ve been living in, and on the search for light around the edges. It’s an album about getting older, about making peace with past failures, about saying goodbye to various youthful fantasies about how things would turn out.

It’s also an album about finding solidarity and friendship amidst the wild weather of these times. One of the great things about getting older is the deepening of old friendships and many of these songs are written as love letters to dear friends, trying to help pull them through tough moments. A couple songs are trying out that level of compassion on myself. Generally they’re calls for togetherness in a time of isolation; they’re songs about pain with hope and light at their core.

We recorded all ten songs in a three-day marathon session in Portland, Maine in August 2022. It was a miracle of logistics; old bandmates had come in from New York and Louisiana and Massachusetts and Amsterdam; we all stayed focused, nobody got covid and we recorded everything that we intended to. At some point in the recording studio I looked around the room and realized that I’d been friends with everyone there for at least ten years, collaborating with many of them since high school band class. I think you can hear those old bonds come through in the music; there’s elation at getting to play together again, after spending two forever pandemic years apart.

credits

releases June 21, 2024

Music and Lyrics by Katherine Perkins
Produced by Fox Schwach and Katherine Perkins
Recorded by Fox Schwach at Acadia Recording Co., Portland, ME
Mixed by Fox Schwach
Mastered by Piper Payne at Neato Mastering, Nashville, TN
Horn Arrangements by Danny Fisher-Lochhead

Album Cover Photo by Katherine Emery
Album Layout and Design by Ana Mouyis

Katherine Perkins - Vocals, Banjo, Auxiliary Percussion
Chris Doyle - Piano, Wurlitzer, Hammond Organ, Farfisa
Ryan Blotnick - Guitar
Ross Gallagher - Bass
Dave Palazola - Drums, Auxiliary Percussion
Danny Fisher-Lochhead - Alto Sax, Auxiliary Percussion
Aaron Rourk - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Emma Stanley - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Tim Semler - Background Vocals
Fox Schwach - Synths, Auxiliary Percussion
Orlando Hernández - Tap Dance

THANK YOU:
to JONATHAN HENDERSON, JACOB BLUMBERG, ANA MOUYIS, LINN KOEK & KERI KIMURA for doing all the big and little things to keep the wheels turning and the project afloat; to LYDIA MOFFET & TIM SEMLER at TINDER HEARTH and ANNA DAVIS & DAVID LEVINSON at BEECH HILL FARM (and the amazing crews at both places) as well as CHRISTINA SPURLING for making homes for this music in downeast/midcoast Maine; to EAMONN HUTTON & AMY HOFFMASTER for the nice place to sleep; to JASON and ALICE at ACADIA RECORDING CO. for all the in-studio assistance; to all the incredible musicians on and off the record who have helped to realize these songs in various spaces and stages over the last several years (looking at you SOULBENDERS, JONATHAN (again!) and REBECCA LASAPONARO); to all the family and all the friends for showing up again and again (special shoutout VICTOR DOYLE); to the MAINE ARTS COMMISSION, whose 2023 Project Grant helped to fund the mixing and mastering of the album; to FOX, for the six million hours spent combing through the sounds and making the songs shine through, and DANNY for frequent reminders of perspective, walk breaks and vegetables. Finally, thank you to KATHERINE EMERY for taking a wild prompt and running with it, and JODI SARGENT for the flowers.

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Katherine Perkins writes songs and paints in Maine. Her music and artwork explore light and color, the ocean and the human heart.

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