Trampled by Turtles’ Dave Simonett has time enough at last on his new solo album ‘Red Tail’
Zoe Prinds*
lives and creates in Minnesota, where the winters are long, cold, and, yes, isolated affairs. They’re also a blank canvas and offer the undisturbed chance to have, as voracious reader Burgess Meredith once pined for in“In the winter, everything slows down and I write a lot more. I like to think I use it as kind of a tool,” says Simonett, seated at the counter of a busy coffee shop in Nashville in mid-February.
Other tracks are more introspective and soul-searching, like the simple ballad “By the Light of the Moon.” Simonett pairs the song about the acceptance of emptiness and loss with a stop-motion music video that swells with emotion. While a video may offer insight into a song’s particular backstory, he doesn’t like putting a fine point on the meanings behind any of his compositions.
“We stuck a mic up and recorded it to a cassette player. I wanted it to sound as raw as we can make it,” he says of the sing-along lyric: “Can you feel it coming over you?”
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