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It is difficult to maintain a positive attitude in these times, but Valerie June determined to do so – and she hopes Music can be a torch of joy to their listeners.
“I’ve explored over the years … what (positivity) means in a dark world, or in dark times in your life when you feel like you’ve failed or like you’ve lost or like things don’t go your way?” June, 43, said only Weekly US When discussing her new album. “I ask myself, ‘Well, how could I still have joy in that time?’ And I’m going back to the ancestors and being a black American from the south.
He is grateful for that luck, he explains, who keeps her going.
“We continued to believe in the joy, for that is what they did,” he said. “And that’s why I’m sitting here, a free woman who can write songs all day and get in the bathtub and play with a rubber duck if I want. I do nothing but enjoy what they’ve prepared the way for me. ‘Oeu,’ oeu, ‘oeu,’ heu, ‘heu.
From his first minute, June’s new album, Owls, omens, and oraclespracticing in Find happiness. The opening track – the appropriate title of “Joy, Joy!” – Starts with the words, “There is a light you can see / want to be loose / hidden light deep inside / Learn to trust your spirit guide / There is light that you can find / if you stop to take the time.” The song then builds into a vibrant explosion of drums and guitars that are impossible not to pop together with it, anchored by Tennessee Twang -twander June.
The tune is almost a mission statement for the rest of the album, which includes collaborations with M. Ward and Blind Alabama boys. “All I really want to do” remembers the sounds of doo-wop ’60s Women’s groupsAlthough “Sweet Things Just for You” is an exuberant love song about being so into someone you would “swim more than a thousand seas”.
June states that she still has her bad days, but she is approaching life – as well as music – with a determination to centralize the good.
“It has taken me years to understand,” he told Us. “I’ll be on the floor in my own dark depression and be like, ‘what’s the hec? I’m supposed to find a little light and feel some joy? F *** that. But now I’m getting it.
He went into the studio to start recording the album last July, but some of the songs on it have been floating around in one form or another for more than 20 years. “My life is a rural song,” for example, is “so old,” but finally decided to record it, knowing it could decide to change something about it in the future.
“There are many different ways for a living song. It’s not lasting as a tattoo,” he explained. “You can always change lyric or add horn or play it without instrumentation. (There are) many different ways it will exist, so I went on and put it out.”
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June is hesitant to choose a favorite track on the album – “The Songs Get Jealous of each other” – but she’s a few she “can’t wait” to play live, including the rocker “Endless Tree.”
“I feel all kinds of Pop Vibrates on this ys ***, ”he teased.” He has so much energy, and I just want to go on stage and sing it. I just want to feel all lyric, especially in this time with everything happening politically around the world and the polycrisis we have with climate change and all the things coming together at once that we will actually have to start facing them. I’m like, okay, there’s a kind of anthem for this now where we probably were prepared to learn how to disagree with each other and still live on this earth together and create a harmonious existence together. ‘ That’s what we have to do. And if you need a song for her, then I wrote it. “
Owls, omens, and oracles Out now.
