The Glendale Tapes, my audio love letter to a little slice of rural Hardin County, Kentucky, is featured in today’s Pulse Section of Elizabethtown’s The News-Enterprise. Amy Smith and I talk about small-town sounds and rural inspiration: “Rural music doesn’t just mean pickup trucks and dead dogs; it can be about the way wind moves through the pines while the high, lonesome cry of another passing train purples the night.” You can read the article here:
Big thanks to Amy Smith.
You can buy/download/stream all six tracks from the A.S. Coomer Bandcamp page.
This collection of three aubades & three nocturnes was written & recorded in Glendale, KY 4/19/23 – 5/1/23 as the weather shifted & the days piled up like sun-cured kindling. This EP is arranged with the spin of the world: day to night & back again. You’ll start your day in Glendale with Glendale with Aubade #3: Fuzzy-Tongued Sun’s Song of Reprisal & stream on down the minutes until your time in Glendale ends with Glendale Nocturne #3: Slow Dance of Stars & Satellites. There are moments of joy and grief, quite a bit of the liminal too. There are tears here to hear, both varieties, often within in the same song (see: Glendale Nocturne #2: Light-Headed Night Exhales Breathless Dawn). My motto for this record was: Do More With Less. I did my best to keep it simple, like the way things often are here in Glendale. Thanks for stopping by.
All six songs are available to stream at all the usual places.
The Glendale Tapes © A.S. Coomer 2023
All songs written, performed, & recorded by A.S. Coomer in Glendale, Kentucky in 2023
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