Piedmont Pastimes by Sam Fuller-Smith
Driving straight into a hurricane was my return, after so many years of roaming, back to my birth state of North Carolina. This portentous reentry would set the tone for a feeling of displacement upon a road towards home.
Piedmont Pastimes is a record of realization and disconnection. I had been gone too long. The warmth of recognition was nowhere in these streets. A childhood of memories -- gravel crunching as we approached the family farm or combing for sea shells at Ocean Isle Beach-- dissipated in a disorienting reckoning. I had been gone too long.
In August of 2020 I became a father. Now faced with the question of home in a new way, I wonder how to create a childhood in what feels like a vanishing world. I'm speaking to my son in these songs. They were born, as he was born, out of feelings of hope and of longing for a meaningful future.
I've tried to hold onto my North Carolina lineage and these photographs are that rear-view mirror reflecting a fading past. As I look toward the horizon, there is a clearing. And in that clearing, there is a new road.
-Sam Fuller-Smith, May 2021
Tracklist
| 1. | Show Me Your Blues (And I'll Show You Mine) | 3:09 |
| 2. | Your Song | 2:46 |
| 3. | One Bright Morning | 3:45 |
| 4. | It Takes A Long Time | 5:46 |
| 5. | Evening Blues (with Jules) | 4:57 |
| 6. | Ellerbee Serenade | 1:58 |
| 7. | Piedmont Pastimes | 3:53 |
| 8. | Dollar Down | 3:00 |
| 9. | We Start Small | 5:11 |
| 10. | A Little Slice Of Pie | 0:36 |
| 11. | In the Shadow Of the Cardinal's Wing | 6:02 |
Credits
Engineered, played and sung by Sam Fuller-Smith
January-March 2021 at The Clock Room in Durham, NC
Mixed and Mastered by Alli Rogers
at Halloween On Raspberry Hill in Durham, NC
Photography by Alyson Fuller-Smith
Design and layout by Sam Fuller-Smith
All songs written by Sam Fuller-Smith, Dogwood Origin Music (BMI)
