Taste Test: Conor Cassidy offers up a classic tune called ‘Tell Me How It Feels’
The folksy world traveler weeps for the feeling of home with a new stunner.
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When Miranda Lambert returns to her humble homestead in “The House That Built Me,” she unpacks all the emotional baggage once and for all right where it all began. It’s a brutally devastating song that takes the senses completely hostage. Folk traveler Conor Cassidy inhabits such a raw, vulnerable state with his new song, “Tell Me How It Feels.” Built on piano, acoustic guitar and light drum work, it’s a searing wallop of a performance that twists the screws of his emotions until they snap. “Tell me how it feels to have a home / And I’ll tell you how it feels to be alone,” he lets the tears drop onto his guitar. The melody is as timeless as a Beatles classic, or anything following the singer-songwriter template of the ’70s ⏤ his voice melting around the words as they heave and wretch from his chest. An old soul evoking a bygone era, the craft is commanding and fragile, the pieces nearly crushing to dust in his fingertips. But he somehow manages to quickly vanish amidst pillow clouds and the dusk that peeks just over the horizon.
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