Review: Dover Lynn Fox remembers the past with ‘When Youth Was Wasted’
Fox loses herself in the past.
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Dover Lynn Fox‘s “When Youth Was Wasted” washes over you in calming waves. Written during frigid winter, the song gazes forward to the August heat, while also finding Fox reminiscing about the previous summer. Her images flicker past the eardrums like a flipbook, the crinkle of paper settling on the melody and giving it a rippling texture. “It’s hard to know when you’re never right,” she sings over acoustic guitar. The emotional currency she spends is high, underscored with a rootsy singer/songwriter vibe. Her voice never wavers, even as the memories seem to consume her whole. That’s raw talent.
