“‘Tether’ is a protest song. It is a message of
passion, blunt truth, and Draper’s personal reality, and it calls for patience.”
– The Big Takeover
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Linda
Draper as photographed by
Jeff Um
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“At its core, ‘Tether’ is a protest
song. It is a message of passion, blunt truth, and Draper’s personal reality,
and it calls for patience.” – The Big Takeover
Head over
to The Big Takeover to check out
the premiere of “Tether,” the first
single from Linda Draper’s upcoming Patience
and Lipstick (Jan. 21st,
South Forty Records).
“I wrote this song during lockdown at the beginning of
the pandemic,” Draper says. “I was
amazed and disgusted with how, literally overnight, every TV commercial, news
outlet, and talk show was suddenly barraging us with these insincere and overly
sentimental messages about how we are all in this together.
“If there is anything that maybe everyone can all
agree on these days, it is that we are NOT all in this together. We have never
been more divided and distrustful. Those cozy little bubbles that we got
ourselves stuck in just keep on popping. Now it’s time to face the music.”
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Linda Draper | In The Press
“Draper’s
illuminating sound provides a radiant glow.” — No Depression
“Captivating magic.” — All Music Guide
“Not unlike folk mama Joan Baez.” — Time Out New
York
“Channeling the finger-plucked folk music of Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake, she sings like a siren.” — American Songwriter
“Full of atmosphere with elegant, every-note-in-the-right-place
instrumentation.” — Popmatters
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Linda Draper | Live
11/06/2021: Brooklyn, NY @ Pete’s Candy
Store (709 Lorimer St., w/ Atoosa Grey)
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Linda Draper | About
“I asked them what the secret to a long and happy
marriage was,” Linda Draper says,
recalling a post-gig conversation with a pair of married fans.
“Jack is very patient,” Ivana, a flight attendant who
works long hours, explained. “And Linda,” she continued, “I always carry a tube
of lipstick in my purse. No matter how late it is, as soon as I turn the corner
towards home, I reapply!”
Patience and Lipstick (Jan. 21st,
2022, South Forty Records) is
now the fortuitous title of Draper’s
upcoming new album, and the tunes on the currently Brooklyn, soon to be North
Carolina-based artist’s latest feel like they came about just as naturally.
“So the secret to a long and happy marriage is
patience and lipstick?!,” Draper
thought. “You know, I think there’s a song in there somewhere.”
Patience and lipstick.
The phrase also encompasses another idea: Of being
willing to wait for things to get better and being ready to shine when they do.
For Draper, the road to this record
has been long, and not just because she has paid so many dues on the NYC
songwriter scene, starting with her debut album Ricochet twenty years
ago.
While Patience and Lipstick leans more
country than any previous Draper
album, anyone who may try to push her into the gentile, soon-to-be-North
Carolinian corner, needs to know that the vulnerability in Draper’s songs is matched with the strength and attitude of a New
Yorker.
Draper faced down and blew away many an audience at the
Lower East Side’s songwriter testing ground Sidewalk Cafe (RIP) in the early years, and her first four albums
were produced by noted iconoclast, Kramer
(currently seeing his own resurgence with the re-boot of his groundbreaking
record label Shimmy Disc.)
Talk is cheap still they keep speaking in their
crooked tongues
Trying to sell me the idea we’re all in this together
I beg to differ... I beg to differ
We were never all in this together
There is no tether nor was there ever
The lyrics are from “Tether,” the first single from Patience and Lipstick, a
perfect example of Draper’s special
way of twisting a dark tune, tinged with the appropriate cynicism, into a
sing-along.
Draper wrote the song just as the pandemic was shutting down
the city.
“I was amazed and disgusted with how, literally
overnight, every TV commercial, news outlet, and talk show was suddenly
barraging us with these insincere and overly sentimental messages about how we
are all in this together,” she says. “If there is anything that maybe everyone
can all agree on these days, it is that we are not all in this
together.”
It is a message of passion, blunt truth, and Draper’s personal reality, and it calls
for patience. And it’s the album’s follow-up single “‘81 Camaro” that has gotta be the lipstick.
“My dream is for the folks at Cowboys (described
online as “Orlando’s Best Country Nightclub”) to make up a country line dance
for this song that I can actually learn how to dance to with them,” Draper exclaims.
The tune truly has the potential to become a standard
in that way, which makes Draper’s
other dream of having Lucinda Williams
cover it, seem plausible.
Patience and lipstick.
Draper also identified with this in her decision to cover
the 1972 Barbara Keith song “Detroit or Buffalo,” another of the
album’s many highlights.
“As soon as Jeff
Eyrich (Draper’s current producer, and himself a country music authority,
having toured as bassist with all-time great, Tanya Tucker) shared this song with me, I instantly knew I wanted
to cover it,” Draper remembers. “Barbara’s voice, and the message in her
lyrics, are timeless, raw, and fearlessly vulnerable.”
On the fearless tip, Draper is also embarking on another new journey (a metaphorical
one, not her upcoming relocation.)
“The name is inspired by the area in Montana next to
where my mother’s side of the family has had their ranch since the 1930s,” she
explains of South Forty Records, her
newly formed label. “With the label, I’ve decided to provide a musical
homestead, by honoring the music for the generations that came before and
preserving it for the generations that will follow.”
It’s an endeavor inspired by her family’s near-century
long relationship to the land, delivered with an acknowledgement that the
effort may only bear its greatest fruit in the distant future. However, when it
does, there is little doubt that Draper’s
talents will impress.
Patience and lipstick.
Patience and Lipstick, the latest album by Linda Draper, is scheduled for release on Jan. 21st, 2022 preceded by the singles “Tether” (Oct. 8th), “‘81
Camaro” (Nov. 5th),
and “All In Due Time” (Jan. 7th).
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More about
Linda Draper:
Linda Draper grew up in a musical home as the daughter of a
classical guitar virtuoso who studied with Andres
Segovia. She began playing guitar and writing songs as a child and
eventually became a fixture in the downtown New York City's Antifolk music
scene on the Lower East Side.
Since 2001, Draper
has released numerous albums, toured the US and UK, and opened for acclaimed
musicians such as Teddy Thompson, Melissa Ferrick, Luka Bloom, and Eilen Jewell.
Draper has also seen her songs
licensed for commercials and television.
She is now embarking on her biggest challenge to date
with the formation of her own label, South
Forty Records.
Patience and Lipstick,” Draper’s
upcoming new album, was produced by Jeff
Eyrich, mixed by Grammy®-award winning engineer, Dae Bennett, and features performers David Mansfield (Strings), Jeff Eyrich (Bass), and Doug Yowell (Drums and Percussion). It
is the inaugural release on the artist’s own label South Forty Records.
Linda Draper is
available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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Draper | Links
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