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Judging by the instruments The Farewell Drifters haul around—acoustic guitars, mandolin, banjo, fiddle and upright bass—you’d expect a far more bluegrassy sound than the one they make on their excellent new album Echo Boom. Primary songwriters Zach Bevill and Joshua Britt, lead guitarist Clayton Britt, fiddler Christian Sedelmyer and bassist Dean Marold have arrived at a lavish, layered pop sound that almost definitely owes more to Pet Sounds than it does to Bill Monroe. And the self-aware, coming-of-age lyrics and musical intricacies are no small part of it.
The band are set to release Echo Boom . But every facet of what you do is more intricate—the parts, the arrangements, the songwriting. What areas did you really focus on developing?
Bevill: I think that on this album… all these songs that we wrote we were sort of stretching ourselves stylistically. And we were listening to a lot of different kinds of music. And I think that we just sort of let our guard down even more in terms of who we are as a band and just kind of let everything in. And this is what came out.
Could you give a specific example of how you stretched yourself stylistically?
Bevill: I think specifically we started to mess around with straight down strokes on the acoustic guitars a lot more. It’s kind of a driving rock thing. We did that a significant amount on this album. So when we started kind of toying with that and working it into what we’d already been doing, that sort of stretched the limits of what we were doing.
Britt: Yellow Tag Mondays , it was like five guys who really all played electric guitars and things like that before all learning how to make mandolins and banjos and violins sound kind of like what we wanted to sound like. And with this album, this was so easy. It’s like, ‘Well we’ve figured it out now.’ …It sounds more difficult, but for me every song was way easier this time.
It’s not that Yellow Tag Mondays it came a lot closer. Were you aware of the new direction you were heading songwriting-wise?
Bevill: I think we were aware of it. I think we kind of looked at it as we were just traveling further down our musical path that we were sort of blazing together in the first place. …We knew what we were doing and it came out naturally, but that doesn’t mean that we were unaware of it. And so when we started incorporating some of the other influences that we had growing up into what we were doing, it just felt natural.
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Walking alone beneath the lights of that miracle mile
Me and Mary making our way into the night
You can hear the cries from the carnival rides
The pinball bills, skee ball slides
Watching the summer sun fall out of sight
There's a warm wind coming in ... from off of the ocean
Making its way past the hotel wall to fill the streets
Mary is holding ... both of her shoes in her hands
Said she likes to feel the sand beneath her feet
And in the morning I'm leaving, making my way back to Cleveland
So tonight I hope ... that I will do just fine
And I don't see ...how you could ever be ... anything but mine
There's a local band playing .. at the sea side pavilion
And I got just enough cash to get us in
And as we are dancing Mary's wrapping her arms around me
And I can feel the sting of summer on my skin
In the midst of the music ... I tell her I love her
We both laugh ... cause we know it isn't true
Ah Mary there's a summer drawing to an end tonight
And there's so much ... that I long to do to you
And in the morning I'm leaving, making my way back to Cleveland
So tonight I hope that I will do just fine
And I don't see how you could ever be anything but mine
Ooooooooo..
And in the morning I'm leaving, making my way back to Cleveland
So tonight I hope that I will do just fine
And I don't see how you could ever be anything but mine
Mary I don't see how you could ever be anything but mine
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I turned on the evening news
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He looked up from his old pipe
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Don't blink ... just like that you're six years old and you're taking naps and you
Wake up and you're twenty-five and your
High school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don't blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your better half
Of fifty years is there in bed ...
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