“Gillian Was A Horse” has been floating around in one form or another since 2006, but its current, more polished state is what’s showing up on Damien Jurado’s next album Caught In The Trees, which was put together collaboratively with band members Eric Fisher and Jenna Conrad. The laid-back strummer opens at midnight, the protagonist tired of lying for someone and pretending to be their lover. He’s no lie detector, you see, some other “he”‘s no bullshit talker, and we’re told they both know “who knows what should be here known to all the onlookers.” The liar knows. Also, the town’s hopeless romantic dies alone in the carport of a local library. Otherwise, I’m still negotiating my way around the epiphany Jurado maps in the story.
“The only donkey they’ll be riding boy / is the one wearing your shoes.”
Caught In the Trees is out 9/9 on Secretly Canadian. Stay caught up with Jurado at his MySpace and blog.
[Photo by Sarah Joann Murphy]
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damien jurado = so underrated.
agreed.
can’t wait for the new album.
damien jurado’s has put out such good music for so long. i love this guy
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I don’t think he can write a bad song, and he has so many. One of the best singer-songwriters ever. I can’t wait for this new album.