This Is A Photograph, by Kevin Morby

This Is A Photograph

by Kevin Morby

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Michael B I've only recently discovered his music. like his ability to cross genres Favorite track: Five Easy Pieces.

Klutz Productions Wonderful songs and perfect production. String arrangements are just lovely too/ Great album!! Favorite track: This Is A Photograph.

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Favorite track: A Random Act Of Kindness.

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1.	This Is A Photograph 03:30	buy track
2.	A Random Act Of Kindness 04:14	buy track
3.	Bittersweet, TN 04:13	buy track
4.	Disappearing 03:27	buy track
5.	A Coat Of Butterflies 06:40	buy track
6.	Rock Bottom 02:44	buy track
7.	Five Easy Pieces 04:11	buy track
8.	Stop Before I Cry 04:58	buy track
9.	It's Over 05:21	buy track
10.	Goodbye To Good Times 05:14	buy track

about

The story begins with Kevin Morby absentmindedly flipping through a box of old family photos in the basement of his childhood home in Kansas City. Just hours before, at a family dinner, his father had collapsed in front of him and had to be rushed to the hospital. That night Morby still felt the shock and fear lodged in his bones. So he gazed at the images until one of the pictures jumped out at him: his father as a young man, proud and strong and filled with confidence, posing on a lawn with his shirt off.

This was in January of 2020. As the months went on and the world dramatically changed around him, Morby felt an eerie similarity between his feelings of that night and the atmosphere of those spring days. Fear, anxiety, hope and resilience all churning together. The themes began twisting in his mind. History, trauma and the grand fight against time. Having the courage to dream, even while knowing the tragedy that often awaits those who dare to dream.

While his father regained his strength, Morby meditated on these ideas. And then, he headed to Memphis. He moved into the Peabody Hotel and spent his days paying tribute and genuflecting to the dreamers he admired. In the evening, he would return to his room and document his ideas on a makeshift recording set-up, with just his guitar and a microphone. The songs, elegiac in nature, befitting all he had seen, poured out of him.

Produced by Sam Cohen (who also worked on Morby’s Singing Saw and Oh My God), This Is A Photograph features musical contributions from longtime staples of Morby’s live band, as well as old friends and new collaborators alike. If Oh My God saw Morby getting celestial and in constant motion and Sundowner was a study in localized intent, This Is A Photograph finds Morby making an Americana paean, a visceral life and death, blood on the canvas outpouring. As Morby reminds us early on, time is undefeated. So what do we do while we’re still here? This is a photograph of that sense of yearning.

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released May 13, 2022

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Kevin Morby Kansas City, Missouri

Kevin Morby writes (and records, and imagines) at an almost incomparable clip, and his most recent album, This Is A Photograph, studies life, time and mortality through myriad lenses. It’s a dynamic, buoyant record on big, heavy themes, so it only makes sense that Morby found he wasn’t quite done with it on its completion. More Photographs (A Continuum) finds new nooks, corners and vantage points. ... more

shows

Jul 1

Chalk

Brighton, UK
Jul 2

Leeds Irish Centre

Leeds, UK
Jul 3

Boiler Shop

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Jul 4

The Castle & Falcon, Birmingham

Birmingham, UK
Jul 5

Crystal Palace Park

London, UK
Jul 7

L'Aéronef

Lille, France
Jul 8

LA VAPEUR

Dijon, France
Jul 9

Le Trianon

Paris, France
Jul 13

TD Pavilion at the Mann

Philadelphia, PA
Aug 9

State Theatre

Portland, ME
Aug 10

Thompson’s Point

Portland, ME
Nov 15

Weissenhäuser Strand Hotel

Hamburg, Germany

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