Photo by Reagan Elkins
Taste Test: The Imaginaries plot acrobatic routine with ‘Walking on a Wire’
The rising folk duo trek across scorched desert to find their purpose.
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It took The Imaginaries, a folk duo of Maggie McClure and Shane Henry, quite a long time to break their shackles. But here they are, mining blues-adorned folk music with a relish and command few newcomers possess. On their new song “Walking on a Wire,” the pair inspect their daily routines as working musician’s, paring away the rotten edges as a way to understand their passion and purpose in this life. “Stuck on a wheel, spinning ’round and ’round again,” their chests ache with the pressure of barely getting by. With confronting such an existence, they unpack their brokenness, an act of valor in an ever-slippery industry. “We can make it, make it / Til the other side,” McClure whispers. The accompanying visual, directed by Reagan Elkins, lays bare their ongoing sojourn, set atop scorched, cracked earth.
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