Lone Stag and the melancholy rustic beauty of "Never Gets Old" (Official Video)

 

"final reminder is piled up on the shelf / among vitamin tablets and faded notes to sell...."

There is something so exquisitely embracing about songs were the brushes painted with are primarily just evocative acoustic guitar and truly compelling voices full of character. This is the case with the beautiful and vast "Never Gets Old" by the mysterious Lone Stag. Truth be told, there are layers of added extra stringed instruments and synths providing swells of sound but primarily, the opening picking style acoustic playing and the lead vocal with supporting harmonies provides a deep, deep well of emotions. It helps that the vocal melodies are incredibly melancholy, in their beauty, too, and that the story being sung provides soft gut punches, friendly hugs and a wistful sense of our own passages of time and the relationships that bind us with time, with our own history.  

I don't know much, or more specifically, I don't know anything at all about this UK artist but hope to find out. This is what he shares:

"The Lone Stag who sings is a character. An amalgam. A fiction. He might not be real, but he still finds something to say. He is an outsider, probably born in the wrong place and time, searching for meaning amidst the exigencies of modern life in Scotland. He hopes others will join his herd. If not, he still has his guitar."

Hope you delve into Lone Stag.

-Robb Donker Curtius  




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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3yXTUSktrIeHBElNToIluC

https://www.instagram.com/lone_stag/

https://www.facebook.com/LoneStagMusic/


The Lone Stag who sings is a character. An amalgam. A fiction. He might not be real, but he still finds something to say. He is an outsider, probably born in the wrong place and time, searching for meaning amidst the exigencies of modern life in Scotland. He hopes others will join his herd. If not, he still has his guitar.

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Just trying to make music that I and other folk love as much as I love the music of my heroes - Bonnie Prince Billy, Iron & Wine, Hiss Golden Messenger, Joan Shelley, Jason Molina, Gregory Alan Isakov and myriad others. I will forever reach for that rainbow.

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