Troy Mercy Photo credit: Karen Jerzyk
The Faces and Curtis Mayfield discussing a particularly shit work-week over a pint somewhere in Electric Ladyland. Have you ever been?
Evidently, Troy Mercy has. For his second single “A Place Of Our Own” Mr. Mercy sets down his guitar flamethrower featured in his previous single “Traveling Light” and instead lays down some first-rate soul licks honed during his years spent touring with Booker T. Jones.
“It’s those tales of ordinary madness that sneak up on us,” says Troy. “You know, that daily pressure builds slowly. As your doctor, I’m prescribing listening to ‘A Place Of Our Own’ as needed and singing along to the “Na-Na” bits quite loudly indeed. See Cheryl in Billing on your way out.”
Troy tells The Big Takeover a little more on the music video “A Place of Our Own,” which was directed by Skye Goba & Cassie Israelson,
“Visually I played up the song’s lyrical themes of feeling alienated in the normal day-to-day cycle. I admire the films by Cocteau, Tati, Kenneth Anger, and Gilliam so I thought some of that more oblique imagery would hit the mark here. It’s a hopeful song, but you really don’t have any need for hope unless you find yourself currently in the dark, y’know.”
This is Brave New Blues For A Mean Old World.
Troy Mercy’s upcoming album, Let The Night Begin, will be available on vinyl, CD and DSPs on May 29th via Gitcha Records. His two recent singles “A Place of Our Own” and “Traveling Light” are both out now.
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