45 REVELATIONS
Maintaining an alarming tradition of tardiness, the Single of the Month for this column was released (as an LP cut) about a year before the cover date on this issue. I’ve been hoping it would come out on a single, and in February this year it did—as a B-side.
45 REVELATIONS
KEN BARNES
Maintaining an alarming tradition of tardiness, the Single of the Month for this column was released (as an LP cut) about a year before the cover date on this issue. I’ve been hoping it would come out on a single, and in February this year it did—as a B-side. Which still qualifies it for coverage here, thankfully.
The song in question is “Over You” by Lacy J. Dalton, and it’s the most spinechillingly mournful song in years, an unbeatable argument against those who maintain that modern country has lost touch with its pre-20th Century folk roots. The minor-key melody would make a magnificent Appalachian ballad, and the exquisite fiddle and Lacy’s impossibly rich vocal add the frosting.