Can’t seem to settle down anywhere for more than three years.” That’s kind of what I’ve done in my life for the last 10 years or so. “The lyrics are cute, as well - some girl that wants to imagine the grass always being greener, and she tries, and it isn’t, so she has to keep going.
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“It’s a cute little Postman Pat–sounding song,” he says, referencing the British children’s TV show. He points to “Finally Alone,” an easygoing soft-rock gem with lyrics about alienation under bright lights: “Sick of the city/Lumped in with all the pretty people/You need a vacation,” he croons to a confidant. “This one feels even more emotional to me. “The last one was very literally like, ‘Hey, everybody, I have daddy issues,'” he says. I find that comforting.”ĭeMarco is quick to add that Here Comes the Cowboy isn’t just a joke - in fact, he sees it as even more honest than This Old Dog, where he wrote about his distant relationship with his father. It’s funny to think of this character that just goes to the saloon and rides his horse. “People are going crazy these days,” he says. He explains the new album’s Western motif as a fantasy of escape from the modern world. Made me a little bit ashamed to be from where I was from when I was young, to be honest.” “In Canada, where I grew up, that’s what cowboys were - people put the hats on and go to bars and get wasted. “It was all the guys that wanted to kick my ass in high school,” he says. “It’s somebody’s interpretation of the character that doesn’t have any first-hand experience or understanding of it.”ĭeMarco isn’t much of a country music fan, aside from the odd Willie Nelson or Dolly Parton record, and he grew up despising the cowboy-hat jocks in his hometown of Edmonton. Wild-west imagery comes up in several songs, expanding on the title track to a whole dream world of cowboys, cowgirls, pretty cattle and little doggies. “But I think anybody that actually had some funk to them would be like, ‘What the fuck is this, Mac?'”
“I wanted to make something greasy,” DeMarco says. Here Comes the Cowboy has some lonesome, melancholy songs, like lead singles “Nobody” and “All of Our Yesterdays,” and some goofy ones, like “Choo Choo,” featuring nonsense lyrics about trains over a slick funk groove inspired by Sly and the Family Stone. Which is kind of funny, because then my quiet time turns into everybody time when I show somebody the songs. When he’s writing songs, he adds, “It’s my quiet time. “My girlfriend’s always saying my adrenals get screwed up. “Being on tour for so much of the year, you don’t get that much time to yourself,” he says. The rest of the album came together in January, with DeMarco working late into the night almost entirely on his own, a habit that dates back to the beginning of his career. He was on a short break from the road at the time, stealing a few days between the lengthy full-band tour for his 2017 LP This Old Dog and a more intimate solo jaunt. “I think I was in a confused, exhausted state,” recalls DeMarco, 29. Flashback: Tina Turner Covers Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson on Debut Solo AlbumĮvery Super Bowl Halftime Show, Ranked From Worst to Best
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