Photo by Danny Miles
“Cannonball“ ft. Cayley Thomas is Eamon McGrath’s Canadiana symphony to God and a tribute to the the psychedelic outrage of Gram Parsons and Lee Hazlewood. An Alberta native, country music soundtracked the long cold winters and brief joyous springs of McGrath’s musical upbringing. He returns to that wildwood sonic flower with modernistic detachment and digital depth on this new single, which can be found on on Spotify, Apple Music and SoundCloud, and will be included in his upcoming full-length album Bells of Hope.
“‘Cannonball’ refers to an object that is both kinetic and stationary in its nature,” says McGrath, “a massive piece of metal, impossible to move, until the moment it is flying through the air so fast that there is no chance or hope of slowing it down. In some ways it is a metaphor for a musician on tour, powerless against the emotional forces that propels one down the highway, yet completely grounded and unmoving in the state of isolation wherein the song itself was recorded. It alludes to the chance to reflect and look back on moments of your life as a musician with fondness and longing, but also a deep realization that they will never return.”
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