Holler Video Premiere: “The Fair And Dark Haired Lad”
From Holler.country:
Believe me, after failure comes flight,” Princess Kosmonopolis tells the aspiring actor Chance Wayne in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth, as an eerie lament fills the coastal air. “Nothing ever comes after failure but flight.”
Sometimes, though, there isn’t anywhere to fly; people get stuck where they are, and when that happens they look for different ways to escape and find their salvation in something else. Sometimes they fly away only to fly back again. These are the stories that Jaimee Harris is interested in telling.
“This is what it’s like to be a part of the post-‘Born to Run’ generation,” she says, addressing the characters that inhabit the sets of her own small town minidramas; the vivid portraits of rural desperation and restlessness that make up the songs on her forthcoming album, Boomerang Town. “Springsteen’s generation had somewhere to run. I’m not so sure mine does.”
The latest taste of the album comes with ‘The Fair and Dark Haired Lad’. A pulsing Appalachian folk ballad that grapples with the seductive nature of alcohol and the addictions that all too often go along with it. With its lilting violins and stylised take on Celtic-tinged Americana, it brings to mind the folksy rock of Desire era Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris’ Wrecking Ball, and ends up sounding like Polly Harvey fronting The Chicks.
