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Shannon Lay: June 28, 2024 Tubby’s

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Evan Walker

Shannon Lay’s new single “Mirrors” acquired lots of mess around my home this Spring. It’s superbly recorded and seems like the daylight that filters by the bushes and lights up my kitchen whereas I cook dinner. So it was a fairly candy and well timed shock to see her coming to Tubby’s on a stacked triple invoice with Anna St. Luis and Shana Fullana.

Shannon’s songs are so intricately crafted that it’s needed to discover a single level to dissect them. Do you lead with the profoundly introspective lyrics or the mind-boggling finger-style guitar enjoying? Or perhaps it’s best to deal with her large vocal management?

I’ll begin with the guitar enjoying as a result of I spent many of the evening making an attempt to know it. Her technical coMMAnd appeared easy however was by no means overshadowed by the profoundly emotional resonance of her enjoying. Her enjoying got here from a spot of pure vulnerability, drawing listeners in with the uncooked depth of her expression.

The set was drawn from her whole catalog and included the aforementioned “mirrors” and stellar covers by Elliott Smith and Karen Dalton. Each music felt like a spotlight, however a specific second felt most affirmative. After a short acknowledgment of Kingston’s parking woes (an area scorching subject), she settled into “Come Collectively” off 2017’s “Residing Water” and by some means, what began as a dialogue of parking tickets become a second the place might collectively replicate on all the exterior pressures and ills. We might select to disregard these stressors and transfer ahead to positivity:

“All of us have sufficient

Come on shake your damaged shoulders

Come on transfer your damaged sneakers

Come collectively”

I’d like to offer a particular shout-out to the Tubby’s crowd on this explicit night. Typically talking, recording solo acoustic singer-songwriters in a bar is an train in futility. You may solely achieve this a lot limiting, however everybody was extremely respectful of the songs and performers, and you’ll hear that within the recording. The standard is superb, so please take pleasure in.

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Shannon Lay
2024-06-28
Tubby’s
Kingston, NY

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Due to Tubby’s FOH engineer Wil for the board patch