Orillia Photo credit: Peach
Chicago songwriter Andrew Marczak shares his Americana music as Orillia, and he’s about to release his second album, Fire-Weed, via Far West Records next week. As the third and final single off the upcoming album, Marczak offers a new version of his song “Weather” that he previously shared with his indie-rock band, The Roof Dogs. With a sound and take so different it may as well be a new song entirely, The Big Takeover is pleased to premiere “Weather” today.
Marczak spent this past winter recording on a borrowed Tascam tape machine, enlisting Chicago country band Local Memory before George Rezek of Future Crib engineered and mixed the record. The album and single features several guests, like fiddle player Lydia Cash (a relative of Johnny Cash), Dylan Sage on banjo, and Marczak’s partner Peach on harmonies.
He said of the song,
“‘Weather’ is probably the only song I’ve written that could be classified as a ‘lockdown’ song. I wrote it shortly after restrictions loosened up in 2020, and it was certainly born from the anxiety of living through that specific moment in time. In some ways, it’s a revisionist story of my own childhood and of America’s conflation of violence and art, telling the story of a coastal serial killer and his not-so-secret admirer from a young boy’s point of view.”
While previously featured on The Roof Dogs album Here You Are off of Earth Libraries in 2023, Marczak and his friends give “Weather” a new country sound, complete with fiddle, banjo, and a slight twang in Marczak’s vocals, breathing new life into the song while keeping a lot of the original’s rock energy.
Find the full album Fire-Weed next week Friday, October 24th, both digitally and on vinyl via Far West Records.
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