Taste Test: Tony Harrah weeps for ‘Sweet Lucinda’
The West Virginia Americana man longs for his wife to come back on a smoldering new song.
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Country music has a long-standing tradition of gentle bar weepers of heartbreak. It’s the kind of pain that rips you to shreds, and the only way to properly examine those emotions is by writing a song. Scruffy-voiced West Virginia Americana man Tony Harrah lets his tears flow right down into his lap. On “Sweet Lucinda,” a rock-baked mid-tempo, he trips up on his emotions and seeming garbles the past as a way to make sense of his wife leaving him. The narrator is a farmer by trade, and it’s not his wealth of crops that have dried up. No, his heart has withered as grapes out in the sweltering mid-summer sun. “I’ve loved you through the hard times,” he yearns, reminding his love of his painstaking, unconditional adoration for her. But that just wasn’t enough. Her heart had tumbled away from him years ago, and there’s just no going back.
“Sweet Lucinda” anchors Harrah’s new album, Unicorns, expected later this year.
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