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After dancing with the big boys in Nashville for The Purple Bird, it was time to go back to Louisville, KY for some unfinished business. We’d had our wild and unpredicted quarantine year way back in 2020 (what a time, never over) and responded to it with Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You, a record of determined intimacy that seized closeness and celebrated community. Oldham got to work, after Keeping Secrets, on something that would build upon lessons learned and little victories won in the writing and building of that record. But something flew in the way: a big beautiful exotic musical force in the person of David Ferguson who midwifed the experience that became the Purple Bird. Once the feathers had settled and the world toured, Oldham called Jim Marlowe, who runs End of an Ear, a recording haven less than ten minutes’ drive from Oldham’s house. Over a couple of months, a patchwork of sessions brought forth We Are Together Again, ten songs of “love and friendship and fiasco”, songs about togetherness.
We Are Together Again implies a return. The first LP of original songs that Oldham helped put into the world was the Palace Brothers’ There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You, back in 1993. That record was recorded in Kentucky, less than a quarter mile form the mighty Ohio River, and now, in Marlowe’s studio, we’re back in this riverside space, back home as it were, with family, friends, colleagues and heroes contributing.
Where KSWDY brought with it a determined joy, here on WATA we enter a more fearful space; anger and sadness lurk with their opponents gratitude and courage.
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