This Is A Photograph, by Kevin Morby

This Is A Photograph

by Kevin Morby

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

PaintedDogs This is the real Morbin' time.

Favorite track: A Random Act Of Kindness.

Niklas Fresh, surprising, ear candy Favorite track: This Is A Photograph.

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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

Jun 05

New Century

Manchester, UK
Jun 06

SWX

Bristol, UK
Jun 07

The Roundhouse

London, UK
Jun 09

Safaripark Beekse Bergen

Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands
Jun 12

Saal, Dynamo

Zürich, Switzerland
Jun 13

Giardino Triennale

Milan, Italy
Jun 14

Cortile Del Castello Estense

Ferrara, Italy
Jun 15

STROM

Munich, Germany
Jun 16

Beatpol

Dresden, Germany
Jun 19

Proxima

Warsaw, Poland
Jun 20

Tama

Poznan, Poland
Jun 21

Columbia Theater

Berlin, Germany
Jun 23

Theater Akzent

Vienna, Austria
Jun 24

Kwadrat

Krakow, Poland
Jun 25

Akvárium Klub

Budapest, Hungary
Jun 28

Post Tenebras Rock (PTR) - L'Usine

Geneva, Switzerland
Jun 30

Philharmonie de Paris

Paris, France
Jul 02

LA SIRENE

La Rochelle, France
Jul 07

Île du Gaou

Six Fours Les Plages, France
Aug 25

Veterans Memorial Park

Vineyard Haven, MA
Sep 09

Mountain Theater

Mill Valley, CA
Sep 29

Wanderer

Pambula, NSW
Sep 30

The Factory Theatre

Marrickville, NSW
Oct 05

The Eltham Hotel NSW

Eltham, NSW
Oct 06

The Princess Theatre

Brisbane, QLD
Dec 02

Hard Rock Hotel - Cancun

Cancun, Mexico

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