Taste Test: Danny Olliver takes a plane, train & automobile to ‘Josephine’
The Canadian folk singer-songwriter remembers a love so sweet he marched across the country.
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A love’s bite can strike unexpectedly, penetrating your skin, and make you do crazy, wild and reckless things. His guitar slung over his shoulder and a woman named Josephine only on his mind, Canadian folksy poet Danny Olliver hitchhikes his way by any means necessary to get one more intimate embrace before the sun crests the earth’s crust. With a new song, appropriately named after this particular lover, his footsteps carry him across the countryside and winding through city streets, and almost nothing will get in his way. “Ain’t no shame in looking twice / It fell like rain on that Kingston sky / I’ve been thinking now for quite some time / ‘Bout the state I’m in,” he sings, drawing out his emotional well-being and yearning to be soothed with a propulsive energy. From the pitter-patter as a horse’s hooves on brick, Olliver’s forward motion is unstoppable, and his endless march is truly a marvel.
“Josephine” is off Olliver’s new album, For All My Former Lovers, out everywhere now.
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Photo Credit: Justin Chomyn
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