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Following the release of their acclaimed 2022 album How Long Will It Take Them To Die, the folk-rock band Goodnight, Texas have just released their latest digital single “To Hurry Things Along.” Singer/songwriter Avi Vinocur shares a bit more on this beautiful folk number, “I wrote a poem in 2017 called ‘To Hurry Things Along’ about this spry old man who would walk his dog by my house when I was a kid. I never spoke to him, but I imagined his tobacco pipe and occasional smile concealing a deep and unshared sadness, perhaps because I too was dealing with the loss of my father a few years prior. I adapted my poem into a song about what I imagined his life to be, speaking from his perspective.”
Goodnight, Texas is an undefinable storytelling folk-rock band whose strength lies in unexpected sweet spots. Drawing their name from Avi and fellow singer/songwriter Patrick Dyer Wolf‘s onetime geographic midpoint (the real town of Goodnight in the State of Texas, a tiny hamlet east of Amarillo directly betwixt San Francisco, CA and Chapel Hill, NC), the band also exists at the center of its songwriters’ contrasting styles — via a 1913 Gibson A mandolin and a 2015 Danelectro, at the crossroads of folk and blues and rock ‘n’ roll, in a place where dry wit and dark truths meet hope and utmost sincerity.
Goodnight, Texas’ new single “To Hurry Thing Along” is out now via digital/streaming platforms. Click here to purchase/stream.
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