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Beechwood Park​/​Corridor Country

by James Elkington

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Do you remember summer days Just after summer rain When all the air was damp and warm In the green of country lanes? And the breeze would touch your hair Kiss your face and make you care About your world Your summer world And we would count the evening stars As the day grew dark In Beechwood Park Do you remember golden days and golden summer sun The sound of laughter in our ears In the breeze as we would run? And the breeze would touch your hair Kiss your face and make you care About your world Your summer world And we would count the evening stars As the day grew dark In Beechwood Park Oh roads in my mind Take me back in my mind And I can't forget you Won't forget you Won't forget those days And Beechwood Park And the breeze would touch your hair Kiss your face and make you care About your world Your summer world And we would count the evening stars As the day grew dark In Beechwood Park Oh roads in my mind Take me back in my mind And I can't forget you Won't forget you Won't forget those days And Beechwood Park
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Sit back easy, in nature’s chair The moles black out in this common land The countryside is a sea of turf But they’re all deaf hills to my one command Lend a claw to this bastion of despair Scratch away the verdigris I’m not you but you’re still me Signpost-less in corridor country To dream-cast Europe the writer came A diamond mine in his osprey quill When thirty interveners called He sat back easy but he couldn’t sit still Its a steady death keeping us all in black Our company loves misery I’m not you but you’re still me More or less in corridor country A twice told tale won’t fail to have the ring of truth It earned its own nobility It follows you but will not me A natural maze this corridor country

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*ABOUT THE SINGLE*

The Beechwood Park/Corridor Country single follows James Elkington’s 2020 full-length album Ever-Roving Eye (PoB-050) and includes one studio outtake from that acclaimed album as well as a cover of the Zombies classic. Both “Park” and “Country” are performed in solo settings. Uncut awarded Ever-Roving Eye a 9/10 rating, hailing it as a “triumph … an outstanding record from a humble collaborator” (and their Album of the Month), while Pitchfork, MOJO, The Guardian, and many others described it as Elkington’s best work to date.

James shares his thoughts about both “Beechwood Park” and his relationship to memory and the past:

I’m not really a nostalgic person, but I write about the past a lot as if it happened in a dream and that I’m merely reporting on it. “Beechwood Park” by The Zombies has that same feel to me. On the face of it, it seems to be an idealized view of the past that’s almost trite in its remembrance of “summer rain” and “country lanes,” but the winding chord sequence and spidery guitar tone makes it feel like it’s happening in a different dimension, and I’m always drawn to music that does that.

I worked up this version last year when I was sitting in a studio in upstate New York, waiting for a cab. The band I'd been working with had already left that morning, and the studio engineer was elsewhere, so I was on my own for some time. I can’t remember what prompted me to start working on it, but I do know that the studio was on a country lane, and it was raining, late summer. 

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released July 3, 2020

Performed by James Elkington (vocals, guitar, harmonica)
Recorded and mixed by Mark Greenberg at The Loft, Chicago
Mastered by Patrick Klem, Durham
Photography by Timothy Musho at Light Leak Pictures

“Beechwood Park” by Chris White, © Marquis Songs USA, BMI
“Corridor Country” © James Elkington 2020, BMI

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James Elkington Chicago, Illinois

Chicago songwriter and guitarist James Elkington—who has collaborated with everyone from Richard Thompson to Jeff Tweedy to Tortoise—recorded his sophomore album at Wilco’s Loft, expanding upon his celebrated 2017 debut Wintres Woma as well as his recent production and arrangement work for the likes of Steve Gunn, Nap Eyes, and Joan Shelley. ... more

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