J.M. Clifford is targeted on the present — and all of the thoughts it delivers with it — in his new song “The Reservoir.” The calming, peaceful keep track of is premiering exclusively via The Boot push perform beneath to listen.
Over a straightforward acoustic guitar and finger-picked strings, bare-bones percussion and a gradually increasing fiddle line, Clifford sets a peaceful nighttime scene: “The moon is a beacon in the sky / Past the pines and via the sycamores / We can see for miles and miles …,” he sings in the very first verse.
“Great h2o on my pores and skin / You and I go swimming with the stars,” Clifford adds in the 2nd verse. “It seems to effortless to start / Appropriate below where by we are.”
The inspiration for “The Reservoir,” Clifford points out, life in something his mother explained to him just after her Phase IV breast cancer analysis. “I keep in mind we have been chatting 1 night,” the artist recalls, “and she informed me about how she experienced ‘invited cancer to tea.'”
“I realized she was talking metaphorically, but at the time, I considered it was still the strangest damn point I’d at any time heard her say,” continues Clifford, introducing that it was only significantly later on that he begun to fully comprehend what she meant: “There is a way to sit with the complete spectrum of emotions — pleasure, suffering, grief, speculate — and invite all of that things in without the need of pulling it closer or pushing it absent. You can just exhibit up and be existing for regardless of what the moment presents you.”
“The Reservoir” is one particular of 10 tunes on Clifford’s debut album, On a Saturday Evening. The singer and songwriter wrote the record — which taps into both of those a current divorce and his mom’s demise, as effectively as other struggles and losses — although quarantined in his Brooklyn, N.Y., condominium through the COVID-19 pandemic he then recorded the undertaking in the Bunker Studio, found in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, with Ron Pope and Nicole Cosme as his co-producers.
As a boy or girl, Clifford struggled in faculty and with producing close friends, but used songs to link. He invested time in a variety of bands even though in college or university and right after, but chose a occupation as an interior-metropolis elementary college new music trainer of the possibility of a lifestyle on tour. The discovery of a thriving bluegrass scene at Sunny’s Bar in Brooklyn’s Crimson Hook community led the artist to invest much more time in that neighborhood, and to equally a new job with the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and his debut album.
On a Saturday Night is owing out on Aug. 27. Visit JMCliffordMusic.com for far more details.
