"Hey there man / What you got in your hand? / It ain't no thing / It's just the light I'll bring"
I will just say it simply. I really dig "Hey, Cowboy" by Louis Watts. It could be the interesting drum beat that feels like a beat by someone who is totally self taught and colors outside the lines not because he wants to but he can't help it. It could be the fucking heavy bass line and the way is snakes around in a sultry way. Hell, I don't know, it could be the heavy guitar tones that don't feel like heavy rock guitar but, instead, like garden rock guitar falling off the deep end, hollow body with blues tinges or it could be Watts' vocal aesthetic that feels earnest and cool but not overly wrought. He is not one of those singer's singer and I like that, he falls in that shifting line between a Neil Young and Stephen Malkmus. It could be the massive guitar break, so exquisitely possessed. It could be, it is all of this that draws me in. By the way, this track sounds so incredibly tense and delicious in closed cup headphones (just saying). I fucking love this and needed to revel in it at this moment so I am and somehow feel more sane doing so.
Louis Watts has this to say:
Song and video explore the idea of media consumption on personality, especially in relation to the American male mythos still shaped to this day by false and antiquated notions of the independent cowboy as a wayfaring stranger. The song's lyrics twist a couple lines from Neil Young's "Down by the River" touching on the passing of these archetypes through the years and their perpetuation in various forms i.e. British murder ballads on to American blues and country murder ballads on to 70's folk rock's reinterpretation of these ballads, and finally onto this song's examination of these ballads in this moment in time especially in relation to the rise in mass shootings and deaths of despair.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES
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Ageing Millennial returns to music after failing at all other endeavors.
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