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You, Forever

by sam evian

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Davis MacLeod Haines
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Davis MacLeod Haines i can't stop listening. every time i need a driving vibe with that clear, thick production, i go here. the melodies stick with you like a good meal. goes great with beer or coffee. Favorite track: IDGAF.
Haley Freedlund
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Haley Freedlund This album reminds me of my favorite friends, the escapism of a solo road trip, and hopelessly hopeful love. I was late to the game but this record was shared with me on a tour at the beginning of 2020 and I've listened to it weekly since. I could loop Country for hours and hours. Favorite track: Country.
Ben Van Bonn
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Ben Van Bonn I finally outlawed myself from playing this album at work, so as to associate it only with the bliss of leaving work on a summer night. Favorite track: IDGAF.
samthemusicman
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samthemusicman Sam Evian is one of the best song writers around. I love The Beatles influence and his dreamy voice.
Aljen
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Aljen Beautiful melodies, subtle instrumentation and velvet vocals. Hints of Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison-like (slide)guitar, whiffs of Jeff Hanson's angelic voice, reminds of Elliott Smith and even some Wilco... No more comparisons, this is a very unique and honest album without fillers that can only be credited to the artist itself! Give it a go, strongly recommended!! Favorite track: You, Forever.
a house for bugs
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a house for bugs What the actual fuck @ the instruments on Country & the romance. Has me feelin good to be alive. Favorite track: Country.
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1.
IDGAF 03:16
I look through the window to the coming dawn Feel my body tingle 'cus these days I don't sleep through the night I should'a been a driver I drive so true And life's just an empty road in the end it'll lead back to you And when I find you you show me the truth You show me how I can sleep through the night how I can sleep through the night I don't care, I don't care anymore not like before I don't care, I don't have to care anymore Days go by and I will stay beside you Lookin' up to the picture hangin' on my wall reminds me of simple times 'cus these days I don't sleep through the night I should've been an ocean I get so blue And you would be paradise In the end I will run back to you the end I will run back to you And when I find you you show me the truth You show me how I can sleep through the night how I can sleep through the night I don't care, I don't care anymore not like before I don't care, I don't have to care anymore Days go by and I will stay beside you
2.
I had a dream of a clear blue sky where you tell me your name and the temperatures rise You fly away in a big jet plane but you turn it around and fly back again Reach in my pocket, there's only a dime, can you take me there, can you take me to ride? I'm feelin' ready, I'm feelin' ok, is it time to run away? Is it time to run away right now? Where did you go, where did you go? Where did you go? There isn't much in the world that I need, but a real fast car can be everything If I had money I would throw it away, but I'd save a little bit for the old highway Who can tell me that it's only a dream when I hear so clear how the caged bird sings? I keep the memory of this place, it is burned in my brain and I'll never let it fade, no no. Where did you go, where did you go? Where did you go?
3.
We slither out on a Tuesday, feeling tired and hopeless, and I don't know why This life is a wonder This life is a wonder Help me see through yesterday, I need a barricade, I need an extra life My body's a wonder My body's a wonder Break out the health machine It makes us live it up It keeps us free and clean It gives my heart the beat and I don't know why I look over to my best friend They have weakness They are pale and tired I know how to save them I know how to save them Break out the health machine It makes us live it up It keeps us free and clean It gives my heart the beat and I don't know why
4.
Anybody 04:42
Across the border Thought I'd find my remedy Cross the line and make a life We rolled on a Saturday and left it all behind Don't regret a single thing, it was my time Tracing my shadows Down across the desert floor Waiting for the man to come This land has no sympathy No one to help you fight The plants will keep you on your knees From daybreak 'til night and I have a heart to give and hands to make it fight and now I'm out here on my own Some kinda life But who will look out for me? Who knows my name? Is there anyone out there who knows my kinda pain? In this country tossed my name out to the wind felt my weathered life divide Thought of my dear family the friends I left behind Thoughts like that bring me to my knees I strike 'em from my mind And now my home is everywhere I sleep beneath the sky No government to care for me but I'll get mine And I keep my spirit up I keep it close beside The sun will rise and make me work The moon will calm my tide And I live life right by the book It keeps me going on And some will call me criminal So god help the blind But who will look out for me? Who knows my name? Is there anybody out there? Who will look out for me? Who knows my name? Is there anybody?
5.
Apple 01:43
I just need a place to rest my head to close my eyes and leave to close my eyes and see I haven't rested since you left I just need a way to lose the time to let it come over me A place where time is free If I could only close my eyes I just need a place I just need a place I just need a place Long long days just turn into long nights But then you come over me and give me what I seek A way to rest my weary mind through the night
6.
Country 02:47
I don't feel right in society the twisted world Fuck the guns and mythologies the old time fears the things we think we need Hold on tighter to me, baby Don't let me go We got miles and miles of country before we're home I sing the songs that my idols sing But they're all cold and I will follow them to the grave But now we ride and we'll stay free Free, like the love you gave Free, to live out our days Hold on tighter to me, baby Don't let me go We got miles and miles of country before we're home
7.
Next To You 04:20
I can feel your shadow I just wanna be next to you Wanna be next to you I can't fight the world’s battles I just wanna be next to you Wanna be next to you I don't have any country I did but it tore me up and I don't know anymore And this life is such a mystery but I don't feel so fucked up as long as I'm next to you So many people watch how they fall So many good ones can't be who they are So many people are fading away So many people can't make it today Days go by and I'll never know I'll never have words to explain what is going on Guns are pointed at everyone but together we're better off I wanna be next to you So many people watch how they fall So many good ones can't be who they are So many people are fading away So many people can't make it today
8.
Summer Day 03:37
Oh, my love can't you stay? I'm just not ready to leave this place We had our troubles They faded away All of our troubles faded away Gentle breeze for beating hearts I don't think anything can keep us apart I don't want anything to keep us apart It took a summer day so I could see It took a summer day for me to know that the past was a long time ago And it feels so good to be with you today And I ask myself how can I leave this place 'cause I'm ready to stay How my heart can carry me Sometimes I forget the beautiful things You show me figures strange and sweet It took a summer day so I could see It took a summer day for me to know that the past was a long time ago And it feels so good to be with you today And I ask myself how can I leave this place It's a perfect time It's a perfect day and I tell myself that i'm ready to stay Took a summer day Took a summer day Took a summer day
9.
Something happened in my life So sudden I used to think I wouldn't mind the short time that I had At night I'd fly down country roads and flip the lights off under the stars My old truck couldn't do much, but it could sure fly right through the dark Moved to California back at 22 Thought that I could cut right through my bitter youth Felt like some unwanted dog wandering ‘round in east LA The sun beat down and burned me out I lost myself, I lost the way Looking back, I see it now, the emptiness that I couldn't deal with But now I feel it A reason to live When you came into my life I went through changes Suddenly I got the chills when I felt danger Now I want to live out and to feel what it's like to have old love Somehow you just spun me round and showed me all the things that I forgot And now I feel it Now I feel it A reason to live Now I feel it A reason to live
10.
You, Forever 03:31
When it is dark keep it round Hold on to it, let the light go out This is you, forever This is you, forever Feel the cigarette Feel your mouth Feel the gutter running wild It’s a good sound Spirit locked the door Left you in a proper daze If you're anxious If you're worn If you're keeping to yourself on the telephone This is you, forever This is you, forever Alligator Don't you hate it ‘Cause there's no other way around This is you, forever This is you, forever Always
11.
I can drive all night I can drive to find you It won't save our souls but late at night, I find a little peace out on the highway Looking high and low across the county down to where the city shines out gold and it keeps you there I can drive all night I can drive right to you If you call my name I can be there, right by your side I know that highway better than myself It’s what defines me cutting through the dark dark night The dark dark night The dark dark night The dark dark night

about

As it has been said: no matter where you go, there you are. With his new album You, Forever, Sam Evian, the project of New York-based musician, songwriter, and producer Sam Owens, is here to add some eternity to that sentiment. “This is you, forever: deal with yourself,” he says. “It’s about accepting that you are responsible, that you are in charge of your actions. Everything that happens to you is because of you; no matter what happens, go there and learn from it.”

It’s a mantra that powers self-starter Owens, who released his debut Sam Evian full-length, Premium, in the fall of 2016. You, Forever (as well as 2017’s Need You, a collaboration with the multi-hyphenate musician Chris Cohen) was written on the heels of Owens’s experience touring that first album with his band. The tours—which included opening shows for bands like Whitney, Lucius, Luna, and Nick Hakim—taught him much about feel and interaction. Further fueled by a desire to escape from the glow of screens and to embrace a sense of limitation, he quickly developed a new set of instrumental songs written and recorded on a four-track cassette recorder in his parents’ house in North Carolina. Inspired by these limiting techniques, Owens borrowed an eight-track reel-to-reel tape recorder from a friend, rented a house in Upstate New York, and took his band there to record the new album in July of 2017.

That sensibility is both practice and theory on You, Forever. Dreamy album opener “IDGAF” provides suitable exposition with its notion of embracing one’s passions and pursuing one’s goals no matter the impositions in their path. “Health Machine” is a crunchy, slow-burning but deliberate stomper glowing with warm electric guitar noodling, saxophone wailing, and Owens’s reverb-laden lyrics that he says detail an abstract version of how he relates to his own physical form. “It’s about the unattainable health that I would like to imagine for myself on tour. Health is your job if you’re touring as a musician, although it’s a job I don’t do so well.” The song was the last recorded in the summer session, with Owens playing acoustic guitar through a heavily distorted microphone.

“There’s a ton of romance on the record,” he says. “It’s all romance. It’s also about living in New York and trying to separate myself from any idea I had previously of living in New York, and how I’ve kind of designed my own world there.” Whether traveling through America, navigating the bustle of his adopted home, playing festival stages with rock legends, or getting back to basics in his parents’ garage, no matter where Sam Evian goes, there he is... forever.

credits

released June 1, 2018

Produced by Samuel Griffin Owens
Recorded at the Lizmis' house in West Shokan, NY
Additional vocals recorded in Sam's apartment
Saxophones recorded at Thump Studio and Figure 8 Studio
Strings recorded at Thump Studio
Mixed at Thump Studios, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, by Sam Owens, with guidance and support from Brian Betancourt, Hannah Cohen and Bob Moses

All songs Sam Griffin Owens/Domino Publishing (ASCAP)

Photos by Hannah Cohen, Shervin Lainez, Josh Goleman and Sam Griffin Owens
Design by Jadon Ulrich

Special thanks to:
Austin, Brian, Adam and Hannah… my wrecking crew
Bob
Mom, Dad and Z
Saddle Creek family
Richard Grabel
David and Krishna Lizmi
Jack McNutt and Julian Master for the Tascam 48 deck
Robbie Lee for the RCA BA-2C, Langevin AM16's, and Lomo 19a3 microphone
Shahzad Ismaily for the two Neve 33114's
Gary Waldman for his lovely 12-string electric and 6-string acoustic guitars
Koll Guitars for the “Health Machine” guitar
Richard Levengood
Figure 8 family
Frank Riley and Wilson Zheng at High Road Touring
Jessica Linker and Stephanie Bauman at Pitch Perfect
Domino Publishing

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