{"id":2133,"date":"2020-05-01T00:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T00:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2020-05-01T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T00:22:11","slug":"stoll-vaughan-singer-songwriter-has-a-new-album-desires-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/01\/stoll-vaughan-singer-songwriter-has-a-new-album-desires-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoll Vaughan Singer-songwriter has a new album, Desires Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HOLLYWOOD (Perfect Music Today) 4\/30\/20—Stoll Vaughan’s warm, inviting voice wraps around a listener like the presence of a much-loved, cherished friend and confidant. Its tone is imbued and worn by life’s experiences, revealing someone who’s bruised but not broken, still aching but OK. Sometimes.<\/div>\n
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The Kentucky native’s music is stripped down, rooted in the country\/folk\/blues fusion we call Americana. It swells majestically when saturated with Vaughan’s storyteller’s voice, which rings with yearning and passion. The poetic lyrics reveal truths gained from experience; at times, recalling Joni Mitchell’s intimacy and lyrical incisiveness and Loretta Lynn’s plain-spoken directness. His delivery has also the truth-telling conviction that typified Johnny Cash’s best work. It’s like we’re eavesdropping on a man’s conversations, his internal dialogue and struggles or reading an emotionally raw diary that cuts through the BS, right to the bone of his truth.<\/p>\n

On his recently-released fourth album,\u00a0Desires Shape<\/em>\u00a0(Commonwealth Artist), Vaughan captures the I’m OK\/I’m not OK reality of a breakup, nowhere more believably than on the bone-chilling “Weather in Kentucky”:\u00a0Snow falls on the pines\/And softly finds its place\/Covers up the way you feel\/Until it melts away.<\/em>\u00a0And there’s this:\u00a0The good things that we are\/Always carry on\/So when I think of you here’s the truth\/I’m glad that you’ve been gone<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Happiness is something to be fought for … it is not without struggle. On “Put It Back Together,” a couple comes back from the brink:\u00a0Failure drives the driven man\/To face the things he doesn’t understand.\u00a0<\/em>Making the effort to understand bears insight:\u00a0You put it back together\/And you will love like you have never loved before<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Singer-songwriter Stoll Vaughan has a new album, Desires Shape. (MFH\/Glenn Wexler)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Perhaps the album’s finest song, “So Righteous,” speaks of love as it touches the bigger picture of social\/political realities:\u00a0Born together we’ve been torn apart\/Something must break just to change our hearts\/River’s rising and it won’t be long\/The dam is weak and we’ll be dead and gone.<\/em><\/p>\n

There’s a depth of intelligence in the writing and the singing that should touch anyone who loves great songwriting. Vaughan is in a rarefied class of writers, including John Prine, Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard and Mitchell. Maybe Fiona Apple, too. It is the work of a man who apparently has studied himself and his actions\/reactions and, clear-eyed, recognizes there’s still work to be done as he navigates the sometimes rocky emotional landscapes of relationships with lovers, friends and himself. This all plays out in a simple setting of guitar, piano and harmonica that supports the singer and his songs beautifully. His struggles can feel like our own.<\/p>\n

You may not have heard of Vaughan, but he has toured with John Mellencamp, James McMurtry and Marty Stuart; his music has been featured on TV series including\u00a0True Blood<\/em>,\u00a0Friday Night Lights<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Office<\/em>. Vaughan has also worked with the Allman Betts Band on their debut album and its forthcoming follow-up.<\/p>\n

According to his website, Vaughan says his new album’s title is about “being in a continual conversation regarding people, God, and the fears we carry around \u2014 and how music interplays with everything emotionally and spiritually.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Stoll Vaughan\u2019s\u00a0Desires Shape\u00a0<\/i>has been out officially for less than a week and this insightful review of it by Ellis Widner<\/strong> caught our attention in no uncertain terms. \u00a0Hope you\u2019ll read it and let us know if you\u2019d like to hear Stoll\u2019s album. \u00a0We can send it your way as a download, CD or vinyl LP.<\/div>\n
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There are two videos out now that are associated with the album that offer a foretaste. \u00a0Please click on the links to see and hear.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWeather In Kentucky\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cPut It Back Together\u201d<\/div>\n
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    Michael Hepworth HOLLYWOOD (Perfect Music Today) 4\/30\/20—Stoll Vaughan’s warm, inviting voice wraps around a listener like the presence of a much-loved, cherished friend and confidant. Its tone is imbued and worn by life’s… <\/p>\n

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