I could have sworn that we’ve featured The Fire Once Lost before now but I can’t find them anywhere unless they were in a compilation review and got lost.
Anyway, they’re Danish and traditionally fall into bluegrass territory by way of instrumentation but here they’ve shifted focus from ‘acoustic Americana’ into what they accurately describe as “full-on country music” and with the addition of drums. Judas! Infamy!
In ‘Someone else just for you’ they deal with the ‘duality’ of the freedom of a life on the road versus the need for retaining a connection with the family back home. It is the dilemma that all varieties of regular traveller – be it the muso or the widget salesman – has faced. It’s great to be out on the road with the wind in your hair (well, metaphorically speaking unless you’re travelling around on a bike) but you long for your own bed once the hotel bar has closed.
And ‘duality’ is a great word, isn’t it? Makes me think of Schrodinger’s Cat, poor thing.
It is probably the first song we ever hosted that was inspired by the likes of Hank Williams, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings.
Their songs usually transport you back to the early days of the ‘New World’ and the hardships faced (think: The Waltons) and of how everyone knuckled down and slogged their way through them, irrespective of what lay on the other side.
And the music is absolutely authentic to create that image, right down to carefully picked banjo and pedal steel guitar that might be playing on the front porch of a log cabin somewhere in the Appalachians.
The only thing I don’t get is the key line:
“When I ride alone into the sunset/I know I’ll be someone else just for you”.
What I was expecting was “I know I’d be somewhere else just for you” meaning he’d rather be back home with the folks, rather than ‘home on the range’.
But heck, I’m not a songwriter.
The sparks have rekindled.
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