
A dusty ballad plays in a grand old ballroom filled with tailored men and elaborate hairdos. The singer’s baritone drifts from the dashboard of a Cadillac Fleetwood idling in the starlit desert. The rolling drums bleed through the static of an all-night pancake house. These echoes of an old single from 1961 wash over one another until we’re left with nothing but the ghostly outline of a nostalgic age in which we have not lived.
Reverberated Crying
From American Decay | 2015 | Bandcamp
Original song performed by Roy Orbison in 1962. This track appears on American Decay, a collection of loops and reverberations recorded between 2009 and 2014.
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