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https://www.europesays.com/africa/417983/ Police arraign 87-year-old man for allegedly attacking judge with cutlass in court #CourtAttack #cutlass #DahiruGarba #guilty #judge #KabirHassan #Nigeria #StateCriminalInvestigationDepartment #Yola #ZakkaMusa
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/206571/ Fintiri to decide tickets, says APC senatorial aspirant #AdamawaCentral #AdamawaState #AhmaduFintiri #AliyuAbbati #APC #FederalGovernment #Nigeria #NigerianPolitics #PoliticalAspirants #SenatorialRace #Yola
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The Highwomen Play “Highwomen”
Listen to this track by universally lauded country music supergroup The Highwomen, comprised of acclaimed solo artists in their own rights Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Natalie Hemby, and Maren Morris. It’s “Highwomen” the almost-title track to the group’s 2019 self-titled record and featuring the powerful vocal talents of guest artist and honourary Highwoman Yola. This cut is a cover version cum answer tune to the Jimmy Webb-composed song “Highwayman” recorded first by Glen Campbell in 1978. It was perhaps even more famously performed by The Highwaymen in 1985, yet another supergroup made up of Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash.
Both that group and this song inspired The Highwomen and became the central fulcrum of their collaboration between the four principal members. Jimmy Webb approved of the re-write, adapted by Carlile and Shires as principal co-writers. This refashioned cut is a deeper expression of some of the themes in the Highwaymen version of the song, with new characters and their perspectives that preserves the spirit of Webb’s tune and equaling its gravitas. It also builds upon it, and renders up some new insights and powerful dimensions that lend vital contrast to the original.
The Highwaymen version tells the story of four characters from different points in history; a bandit, a sailor, a dam builder, and a starship captain. All of these characters are more than their single stories. They are symbols for daring and bravery, with a heavy dollop of outlawry for good measure. Seeing as Kristofferson, Jennings, Nelson, and Cash are the celebrated figureheads of the outlaw country movement, this is very on-brand. When they give voice to romantic figures who challenge the world as death-defying, risk-taking mavericks, listeners are reminded of the kinds of myths on which whole nations are built. It’s not the men who live forever. It’s the ideals for which those men stand that do. Their immortal spirit of heroism is recognized immediately.
When the re-imagined song by The Highwomen came out as a single in September of 2019, some quarters of the music press erroneously labelled it as a “gender-swapped take on the original”, meaning the Highwaymen version. This isn’t quite the case, although there are some common elements when one compares the two versions. As in the original, the refashioned song is broken up into four sections with each one dedicated to a character. Also much like the original, there is a whiff of the outlaw and defiant spirit about all of them. The immigrant mother and her family steal across a border. The healer is accused of witchcraft. The freedom rider defies segregation laws. And the preacher is simply a woman whose role in ministry leadership stands in opposition to patriarchal religious hierarchies.
Here’s where a comparison between the two sets of stories depart. Instead of being celebrated for their rebellion against the status quo, their lives are marked by external oppression, injustice, and isolation instead. Where the male characters in the Highwaymen version go out in blazes of glory as symbols of defiant bravery, the women characters in the newer version of the song go unheralded, uncelebrated, and unrecorded. No myths are built on their memories. No flags wave because of their resistance to oppression. So, the idea that this song is a simple gender-swap is much too simple to be true. In fact, when one compares one version with the other, the disparity of how rebellion and spirits of independence are presented and then processed through disparate cultural lenses can be striking.
The Highwomen, from left: Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Natalie Hemby, and Maren Morris. images: Kirk Stauffer, Justin Higuchi, CreativeNation1, and ToglennThis isn’t just about history and myth. It’s also about the modern world. One of the reasons that The Highwomen came together was the inequality each member found in country music’s establishment. Their existence as a group is in part a comment on and reaction to the existing landscape where “female singer-songwriters” have been pigeonholed and sidelined as a niche subgenre instead of being counted among the best representatives of the music. The larger picture here is about who is celebrated as a pioneer and example of the best the music has to offer and who gets lost in the shuffle as one who doesn’t know her place in the hierarchy.
Besides these troubling trends in the music industry, the song casts light on what we consider to be the best examples of rebellion and rabble rousing strength. It’s about how mainstream society embraces certain myths in history, and remains unaware of how diverse heroism can be and in what forms it can take. Is a man a hero when he lives by his wits by stealing from the rich along the coach roads? Is the woman who gives her life by getting her children across a border to flee political violence also a hero? Why might the first symbol of rebellion be perceived as a romantic outlaw, while the other is condemned as an “illegal”? If defiance of laws isn’t the difference between the two, then what is? The answer may be obvious.
One factor that is common between the stories heard in the two versions is the indominable human spirit that enables people and societies to survive, even in harsh and risky circumstances. In this, both songs are celebrations of the human capacity to overcome, even when individuals give their lives for the sake of the common good, in the protection of an ideal, or in defence of the innocent. Yet, that point about isolation is also common in the eight stories we hear in both versions of Jimmy Webb’s song. So is the suggestion that systems we’ve put in place over the course of history have made it harder for people to thrive. As much as we may celebrate the heroic and pioneering spirits found in each story, many of them are in the context of suffering and injustice.
As much as both songs inspire both rage and admiration, it makes one wonder why some heroes are celebrated while others go unacknowledged or even become demonized. If the spirits of courage that each character represents in the verses of each version of the song are immortal, then may they continue to inspire us to take risks and reach for greatness. But may they also make us think about what we miss when we fail to examine the passive violence of our devised systems that keep people in their place while those systems harden our hearts against the possibility of change. In pushing against this, and in seeing the irreplaceable value in every human life as a result, we have a chance at heroism ourselves.
The Highwomen is an open-ended collaboration between four country music exemplars and their musical guests. You can visit thehighwomen.com for videos, merch, and upcoming news.
To learn more about how the group came together, check out this 2019 article from Exclaim.ca.
For more on Jimmy Webb and how he wrote the original song , check out this brief history of “Highwayman” on grunge.com.
Lastly, check out Glen Campbell’s version of the song that came out before either version discussed here. In his take, Campbell sings all the characters himself, losing none of the song’s gravitas and emotional impact.
Enjoy!
#2010sMusic #Americana #CountryMusic #outlawCountry #Supergroups #TheHighwomen #Yola
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Video ~ Nigeria Customs Sells Seized Smuggled Petrol At ₦630 Per Litre
Nigeria Customs Sells Seized Smuggled Petrol At ₦630 Per Litre #Economy #Adamawa #Customs #Katsina #NCS #news #Petrol #PMS #Yola ©October 12th, 2024 ®October 16, 2024 8:18 am Nigeria Customs Service, NCS has seized two lorries and one thousand, forty-six kegs of smuggled Premium Motor Spirit known as Petrol and deposited the smuggled petroleum goods at two Fuel Stations for onward sales of the…
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Video ~ Nigeria Customs Sells Seized Smuggled Petrol At ₦630 Per Litre
Nigeria Customs Sells Seized Smuggled Petrol At ₦630 Per Litre #Economy #Adamawa #Customs #Katsina #NCS #news #Petrol #PMS #Yola ©October 12th, 2024 ®October 16, 2024 8:18 am Nigeria Customs Service, NCS has seized two lorries and one thousand, forty-six kegs of smuggled Premium Motor Spirit known as Petrol and deposited the smuggled petroleum goods at two Fuel Stations for onward sales of the…
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Video ~ Nigeria Customs Sells Seized Smuggled Petrol At ₦630 Per Litre
Nigeria Customs Sells Seized Smuggled Petrol At ₦630 Per Litre #Economy #Adamawa #Customs #Katsina #NCS #news #Petrol #PMS #Yola ©October 12th, 2024 ®October 16, 2024 8:18 am Nigeria Customs Service, NCS has seized two lorries and one thousand, forty-six kegs of smuggled Premium Motor Spirit known as Petrol and deposited the smuggled petroleum goods at two Fuel Stations for onward sales of the…
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Video ~ I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity – Peter Obi
I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity - Peter Obi #Politics ###LP #2027 #Abubakar #Adamawa #Atiku #AUN #Obi #PDP #Peter #Yola ©November 30th, 2024 ®November 30, 2024 6:18 pm Former Anambra State Governor and Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria, Peter Obi has said that he was in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State to deliver a…
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Video ~ I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity – Peter Obi
I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity - Peter Obi #Politics ###LP #2027 #Abubakar #Adamawa #Atiku #AUN #Obi #PDP #Peter #Yola ©November 30th, 2024 ®November 30, 2024 6:18 pm Former Anambra State Governor and Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria, Peter Obi has said that he was in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State to deliver a…
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Video ~ I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity – Peter Obi
I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity - Peter Obi #Politics ###LP #2027 #Abubakar #Adamawa #Atiku #AUN #Obi #PDP #Peter #Yola ©November 30th, 2024 ®November 30, 2024 6:18 pm Former Anambra State Governor and Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria, Peter Obi has said that he was in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State to deliver a…
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OsazuwaAkonedo Video ~ I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity – Peter Obi
I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity - Peter Obi #Politics ###LP #2027 #Abubakar #Adamawa #Atiku #AUN #Obi #PDP #Peter #Yola ©November 30th, 2024 ®November 30, 2024 6:18 pm Former Anambra State Governor and Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria, Peter Obi has said that he was in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State…
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OsazuwaAkonedo Video ~ I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity – Peter Obi
I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity - Peter Obi #Politics ###LP #2027 #Abubakar #Adamawa #Atiku #AUN #Obi #PDP #Peter #Yola ©November 30th, 2024 ®November 30, 2024 6:18 pm Former Anambra State Governor and Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria, Peter Obi has said that he was in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State…
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OsazuwaAkonedo Video ~ I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity – Peter Obi
I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity - Peter Obi #Politics ###LP #2027 #Abubakar #Adamawa #Atiku #AUN #Obi #PDP #Peter #Yola ©November 30th, 2024 ®November 30, 2024 6:18 pm Former Anambra State Governor and Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria, Peter Obi has said that he was in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State…
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OsazuwaAkonedo BriefRecall ~ Brief Recall @7PM 30 11
I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity - Peter Obi #Politics ###LP #2027 #Abubakar #Adamawa #Atiku #AUN #Obi #PDP #Peter #Yola ©November 30th, 2024 ®November 30, 2024 6:18 pm Former Anambra State Governor and Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria, Peter Obi has said that he was in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State to deliver a keynote address at the…
https://osazuwaakonedo.news/osazuwaakonedo-briefrecall-brief-recall-7pm-30-11/30/11/2024/
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OsazuwaAkonedo BriefRecall ~ Brief Recall @7PM 30 11
I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity - Peter Obi #Politics ###LP #2027 #Abubakar #Adamawa #Atiku #AUN #Obi #PDP #Peter #Yola ©November 30th, 2024 ®November 30, 2024 6:18 pm Former Anambra State Governor and Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria, Peter Obi has said that he was in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State to deliver a keynote address at the…
https://osazuwaakonedo.news/osazuwaakonedo-briefrecall-brief-recall-7pm-30-11/30/11/2024/
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OsazuwaAkonedo BriefRecall ~ Brief Recall @7PM 30 11
I Was In Adamawa For Keynote Address At Atiku Varsity - Peter Obi #Politics ###LP #2027 #Abubakar #Adamawa #Atiku #AUN #Obi #PDP #Peter #Yola ©November 30th, 2024 ®November 30, 2024 6:18 pm Former Anambra State Governor and Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria, Peter Obi has said that he was in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State to deliver a keynote address at the…
https://osazuwaakonedo.news/osazuwaakonedo-briefrecall-brief-recall-7pm-30-11/30/11/2024/
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Watch Maren Morris Take the Hamptons to ‘My Church’ With Yola
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Watch Maren Morris Take the Hamptons to ‘My Church’ With Yola
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New Artist announced for Green Juice Festival 2025: 🔥 Yola 🔥
🎶 Listen to the current LineUp on YouTube and Spotify: https://fyrefestivals.co
🎟️ Get your Tickets now: https://prf.hn/l/EJnYMdO#Green_Juice_Festival_2025 #Yola #fyre_festivals #livemusic #youtube #spotify #music #musicfestivals #playlist #tickets #announcement
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New Artist announced for Green Juice Festival 2025: 🔥 Yola 🔥
🎶 Listen to the current LineUp on YouTube and Spotify: https://fyrefestivals.co
🎟️ Get your Tickets now: https://prf.hn/l/EJnYMdO#Green_Juice_Festival_2025 #Yola #fyre_festivals #livemusic #youtube #spotify #music #musicfestivals #playlist #tickets #announcement
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Summoning the ancestors with harpist Brandee Younger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSZ7ctY5Zg8
#youtube_nprmusic #NPR #NPR_Music #National_Public_Radio #Live #Performance #tiny_desk #tiny_desk_concert #tony_desk #tiny_concert #lara_downes #amplify #interview #yola -
Summoning the ancestors with harpist Brandee Younger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSZ7ctY5Zg8
#youtube_nprmusic #NPR #NPR_Music #National_Public_Radio #Live #Performance #tiny_desk #tiny_desk_concert #tony_desk #tiny_concert #lara_downes #amplify #interview #yola -
Summoning the ancestors with harpist Brandee Younger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSZ7ctY5Zg8
#youtube_nprmusic #NPR #NPR_Music #National_Public_Radio #Live #Performance #tiny_desk #tiny_desk_concert #tony_desk #tiny_concert #lara_downes #amplify #interview #yola -
#music for #FridayThe13th about the many #pets #Caturday #DogsOfPixelfed i've been able to enjoy: )
#orba #artiphon #fenderStudio #Android #scribesAndMakers #MastoArt
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/fri
had to lose all of them but 4...
Do they live on? You can decide...
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#music for #FridayThe13th about the many #pets #Caturday #DogsOfPixelfed i've been able to enjoy: )
#orba #artiphon #fenderStudio #Android #scribesAndMakers #MastoArt
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/fri
had to lose all of them but 4...
Do they live on? You can decide...
#YOLO or #YOLA you choose -
#music for #FridayThe13th about the many #pets #Caturday #DogsOfPixelfed i've been able to enjoy: )
#orba #artiphon #fenderStudio #Android #scribesAndMakers #MastoArt
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/fri
had to lose all of them but 4...
Do they live on? You can decide...
#YOLO or #YOLA you choose -
#music for #FridayThe13th about the many #pets #Caturday #DogsOfPixelfed i've been able to enjoy: )
#orba #artiphon #fenderStudio #Android #scribesAndMakers #MastoArt
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/fri
had to lose all of them but 4...
Do they live on? You can decide...
#YOLO or #YOLA you choose -
#music for #FridayThe13th about the many #pets #Caturday #DogsOfPixelfed i'v been able to enjoy: )
#orba #artiphon #fenderStudio #Android #scribesAndMakers #MastoArt
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/fri
had to lose all of them but 4...
Do they live on? You can decide...
#YOLO or #YOLA you choose -
#music for #FridayThe13th about the many #pets #Caturday #DogsOfPixelfed i'v been able to enjoy: )
#orba #artiphon #fenderStudio #Android #scribesAndMakers #MastoArt
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/fri
had to lose all of them but 4...
Do they live on? You can decide...
#YOLO or #YOLA you choose -
#music for #FridayThe13th about the many #pets #Caturday #DogsOfPixelfed i'v been able to enjoy: )
#orba #artiphon #fenderStudio #Android #scribesAndMakers #MastoArt
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/fri
had to lose all of them but 4...
Do they live on? You can decide...
#YOLO or #YOLA you choose -
#music for #FridayThe13th about the many #pets #Caturday #DogsOfPixelfed i'v been able to enjoy: )
#orba #artiphon #fenderStudio #Android #scribesAndMakers #MastoArt
https://mirlo.space/mew3/release/fri
had to lose all of them but 4...
Do they live on? You can decide...
#YOLO or #YOLA you choose -
Yola’s simple, radical act of walking through her life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bWWVjj-q4k
#youtube_nprmusic #NPR #NPR_Music #National_Public_Radio #Live #Performance #tiny_desk #tiny_desk_concert #tony_desk #tiny_concert #lara_downes #amplify #interview #yola -
Yola’s simple, radical act of walking through her life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bWWVjj-q4k
#youtube_nprmusic #NPR #NPR_Music #National_Public_Radio #Live #Performance #tiny_desk #tiny_desk_concert #tony_desk #tiny_concert #lara_downes #amplify #interview #yola -
New Artist announced for c/o Pop Festival 2025: 🔥 Yola 🔥
🎶 Listen to the current LineUp on YouTube and Spotify: https://fyrefestivals.co
🎟️ Get your Tickets now: https://prf.hn/l/EJnYMdO#co_Pop_Festival_2025 #Yola #fyre_festivals #livemusic #youtube #spotify #music #musicfestivals #playlist #tickets #announcement
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New Artist announced for c/o Pop Festival 2025: 🔥 Yola 🔥
🎶 Listen to the current LineUp on YouTube and Spotify: https://fyrefestivals.co
🎟️ Get your Tickets now: https://prf.hn/l/EJnYMdO#co_Pop_Festival_2025 #Yola #fyre_festivals #livemusic #youtube #spotify #music #musicfestivals #playlist #tickets #announcement
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New Artist announced for c/o Pop Festival 2025: 🔥 Yola 🔥
🎶 Listen to the current LineUp on YouTube and Spotify: https://fyrefestivals.co
🎟️ Get your Tickets now: https://prf.hn/l/EJnYMdO#co_Pop_Festival_2025 #Yola #fyre_festivals #livemusic #youtube #spotify #music #musicfestivals #playlist #tickets #announcement
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New Artist announced for c/o Pop Festival 2025: 🔥 Yola 🔥
🎶 Listen to the current LineUp on YouTube and Spotify: https://fyrefestivals.co
🎟️ Get your Tickets now: https://prf.hn/l/EJnYMdO#co_Pop_Festival_2025 #Yola #fyre_festivals #livemusic #youtube #spotify #music #musicfestivals #playlist #tickets #announcement
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Yola Sings “Faraway Look”
Listen to this track by Bristolian singer-songwriter and purveyor of classic pop music across a broad spectrum, Yola. It’s “Faraway Look”, a single and opening song to her 2019 full-length debut Walk Through Fire. The song won her accolades, including a Grammy nomination for Best American Roots Performance, with Yola herself nominated for best new artist. Needless to say, this was a big song when it came out. This is in addition to the awards and honours she won in her native UK and in other sectors of the music press on both sides of the pond which have only grown more numerous since.
The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee with The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach in the producer’s seat and doubling as a co-writer on this particular tune, among others. The resulting retro-pop feel we hear on “Faraway Look” is remarkable. It’s as if this song had been unearthed from sessions in 1967 rather than recorded fresh in the late 2010s, full of harpsichord, B3 organ, stately brass, and with a sweeping, orchestral grandeur. As much as Yola would rightly become associated with a renaissance of country music made by a new generation of women, this one reveals a broader range of musical ambition that goes beyond that single stylistic definition of her music. Yet thematically speaking, her material is very much in the country tradition of telling human stories about real people.
“Faraway Look” also touches on a wistfully melancholic Jimmy Webb style in the same spirit of southern pop classic “Wichita Lineman“. Like that classic hit, it’s built on a towering scale to show what grand vistas of thoughts and feelings exist under the veneer of life’s smallest of details, hinting at the inner lives and quiet turmoil of the story’s characters.
“Faraway Look” is a love song depicting common and even mundane activities and exchanges in a life shared with another. But as the song suggests, it’s in these things, these small things, that gave shape to our lives. It’s the everyday comings and goings as we enjoy the simplest of pleasures that often grant us the most joy and also the most insight. Day to day, they may not seem so dramatic as we carry them quietly in our hearts. But the subtle changes in atmosphere as gauged by a strange tone of voice, an uncharacteristic gesture, a faraway look, can make the familiar a key means to reveal the unfamiliar and the troubled in striking contrast.
This song is the portrait of a person noticing these minor shifts in a partner’s demeanour. These indicators are small at first, but worrying as they accumulate. Yola’s skills at conveying this unfolding drama as a vocalist are extraordinary, with her voice starting on the ground level and eventually scaling the dramatic heights; the aural equivalent of what happens inside of a person who becomes aware of how lonely one can feel in a loving relationship even as life continues as it always has. As a songwriter, Yola presents a relatable narrative that’s full of subtext. As a singer, she transforms it into a grand exploration of longing and anguish.
Yola at BeachLife Festival, September 2023 (image: Stevord )This isn’t just a song about a fear of loss, although that is one element to be heard here. It’s even bigger than that. It conveys emotional complexity not immediately revealed on a first listen. “Faraway Look” is about an awareness of distance that can’t ever really be overcome. In this, one cannot lose what one has never had. It suggests that we can never be as close to another person as we want to be or truly know the depths of their struggles or the breadth of their experience. This is especially true if they withhold it or are unable to begin to express them. But it is also true even if neither is the case.
That is perhaps what reveals this song in a classic pop tradition as being one with a kind of rootsy appeal. “Faraway Look” is concerned with the basic elements of what it means to exist; longing to connect with another, fearing to lose them, and always being aware of the distance even as they remain in our lives. It’s a song about living with doubt and about managing the burden of it as we live our lives.
Wish I knew what you were wishing for
Handing out the paper plates
To all your friends that you adore
Are you haunted and wanting more?– “Faraway look”, Yola
Like most genres, roots music and country music are slippery terms. So is soul music. With that in mind, if “Faraway Look” is to be labelled a country song, or touted as an example of country soul, then it’s the song’s subject matter that makes those labels most applicable. Like most classic country music, it’s concerned with the struggles of real people with every day lives who are suddenly confronted by one of the biggest questions in human existence; how can I truly know the one I love, and how can they truly know and love me in return?
With sterling musicianship, high songwriting standards, and an absolutely stunning vocal performance understood, “Faraway Look” is emotionally resonant because it speaks to that part of human experience that makes us feel the most alone at times, looking for signs in our lives that remind us that even if we are alone, then we are alone together. Music that is truly from and for the soul like this can only soothe us on our journey to understanding each other and ourselves.
Yola is a vital talent today. You can stream her music, buy merch, review her socials, and get up to date on tour information by visiting iamyola.com.
To learn more about her background as a songwriter, check out this 2019 interview with Yola at Popmatters.
Enjoy!
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Yola on the ‘Gig Energy’ of Playing Persephone in Broadway’s ‘Hadestown,’ and Why She’s Taking a Turn in Her Music Career to Do Things Her Way
#Variety #News #Hadestown #Yolahttps://variety.com/2024/music/news/yola-hadestown-interview-future-enemies-my-way-ep-1236175943/
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Yola on the ‘Gig Energy’ of Playing Persephone in Broadway’s ‘Hadestown,’ and Why She’s Taking a Turn in Her Music Career to Do Things Her Way
#Variety #News #Hadestown #Yolahttps://variety.com/2024/music/news/yola-hadestown-interview-future-enemies-my-way-ep-1236175943/
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Yola on the ‘Gig Energy’ of Playing Persephone in Broadway’s ‘Hadestown,’ and Why She’s Taking a Turn in Her Music Career to Do Things Her Way
#Variety #News #Hadestown #Yolahttps://variety.com/2024/music/news/yola-hadestown-interview-future-enemies-my-way-ep-1236175943/
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Yola on the ‘Gig Energy’ of Playing Persephone in Broadway’s ‘Hadestown,’ and Why She’s Taking a Turn in Her Music Career to Do Things Her Way
#Variety #News #Hadestown #Yolahttps://variety.com/2024/music/news/yola-hadestown-interview-future-enemies-my-way-ep-1236175943/
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Yola on the ‘Gig Energy’ of Playing Persephone in Broadway’s ‘Hadestown,’ and Why She’s Taking a Turn in Her Music Career to Do Things Her Way
#Variety #News #Hadestown #Yolahttps://variety.com/2024/music/news/yola-hadestown-interview-future-enemies-my-way-ep-1236175943/
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Grammy Winner Allison Russell to Step Into Broadway’s ‘Hadestown’ as Persephone
#Variety #News #AllisonRussell #Hadestown #Yolahttps://variety.com/2024/music/news/allison-russell-hadestown-broadway-persephone-1236147465/
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Grammy Winner Allison Russell to Step Into Broadway’s ‘Hadestown’ as Persephone
#Variety #News #AllisonRussell #Hadestown #Yolahttps://variety.com/2024/music/news/allison-russell-hadestown-broadway-persephone-1236147465/
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Grammy Winner Allison Russell to Step Into Broadway’s ‘Hadestown’ as Persephone
#Variety #News #AllisonRussell #Hadestown #Yolahttps://variety.com/2024/music/news/allison-russell-hadestown-broadway-persephone-1236147465/
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Grammy Winner Allison Russell to Step Into Broadway’s ‘Hadestown’ as Persephone
#Variety #News #AllisonRussell #Hadestown #Yolahttps://variety.com/2024/music/news/allison-russell-hadestown-broadway-persephone-1236147465/
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Grammy Winner Allison Russell to Step Into Broadway’s ‘Hadestown’ as Persephone
#Variety #News #AllisonRussell #Hadestown #Yolahttps://variety.com/2024/music/news/allison-russell-hadestown-broadway-persephone-1236147465/