Something In The Water
Pokey Lafarge
Something In The Water
Pokey Lafarge
Something In The Water, the new dozen-song set from Pokey LaFarge marks a new landmark in a career that’s already filled with musical highlights. The St. Louis-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist draws from a deep well of American musical traditions to create distinctively personal music that’s timeless rather than retro, transcending the confines of genre in a manner that reflects the artist’s openhearted attitude.
Incorporating elements of early jazz, ragtime, country blues, Western swing, and beyond, LaFarge has created a vibrant, deeply expressive body of work that embodies an expansive musical vision and vivid storytelling sensibility that are wholly his own. He’s also earned a reputation as a tireless, uniquely charismatic live performer, winning a loyal international fan base that regularly packs his rousing, celebratory live shows.
Something In The Water finds the artist doubling down on his established creative strengths, expanding and deepening his musical reach on such new originals as the wry, rollicking title track, the swaggering ragtime workout “Wanna Be Your Man,” the infectiously jazzy “Underground,” the evocative instrumental “Cairo, Illinois,” the exotic ballad “Barcelona” and the swinging album-closer “Knocking the Dust off the Rust Belt Tonight,” whose witty lyrics underline the album’s proudly Midwestern sensibility. Also featured are fresh, buoyant takes on popular blues standards “When Did You Leave Heaven” and “All Night Long.”
Track listing:
Something in the Water
Wanna Be Your Man
Underground
When Did You Leave Heaven
Cairo, Illinois
Actin’ a Fool
All Night Long
Goodbye, Barcelona
Far Away
The Spark
Bad Girl
Knocking the Dust Off the Rust Belt Tonight
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