Posted by Billy McManus
Sera Cahoone , The Mondoggies, Widower @ The Tractor | 01/15 & 16 | 9pm | $15 @ The Door | Get Tickets
Sera Cahoone’s Music is beautiful in every way. From the simple arrangement of the music, to the highly personal content of her lyrics, her songs are easy to love. Her self titled debut album was released in 2006 and distributed under special agreement with Sub Pop, who quickly signed her to their label that same year. It received much love on KEXP and NPR, and she has since toured with the likes of Iron & Wine, The Long Winters, Son Volt, and Matt Costa.
In her latest effort Only As The Day Is Long, released in 2008, Cahoone continues where she left off. The record is full of songs about life, love, loss, longing, and a deep down hope that we really can get back all those things we have lost. It is after all, at it’s heart, Country music. On the title track Only As The Day Is Long, Cahoone spins a tale of the compromises that often come with being lonely. But she is also quick to point out that all things do pass.
“Lightnin strikes me only in waves
And I know I’m safe for now
But I know the rest is on it’s way
I know it isn’t easy
Nothin’ is the way I want it
All this will pass
Cause it’s only as the day is long”
Cahoone is headlining both days this weekend with the Moondoggies, and Widower or Magic Mtn depending on which night you get to go. The Tractor rarely gives anybody two night in a row, much less a Friday / Saturday night run. They usually only do that when they are pretty sure the nights will sell out. If you want in you better buy tickets, it will definitely be worth it as Sera shows is here in here video for “Baker Lake”, the second track off of Only As The Day Is Long.
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