Our Basement
I’m pleased to share “Coal In Your Window,” the first single from my forthcoming new album.
I wrote this song in a building in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland that used to be an old cottage hospital (Bonne Bay Cottage Hospital / Julia Ann Walsh Heritage Center). It was inspired by a story I heard about one of the young folks that used to work in the hospital and the boy that would throw coal at her window at night to beckon her down to their meeting place in the boiler room.
“Coal In Your Window” may be about a specific story, but it’s a truly universal concept of jittery, passionate love and doing whatever it takes to access that fire that another person ignites in you. I wanted to evoke an excited, dangerous, lustful energy that gets the heart pumping.
I’m so excited to put my new record out. It’s been a long time in the making – between writing it during two residencies in Newfoundland and the Yukon, and recording it in Toronto and Montreal. I am fiercely proud of the result. We’re going to tour the heck out of it this year to make sure it reaches as many ears as possible!
Thanks for listening,
Skye Wallace
Hello
Heck of a song. Rippah.
And good morning-afternoon!
Hello, I’m baaack.
Vegas trip was very successful.
I also had a chance to go out to the Grand Canyon which is stunning, if a bit overwhelming, and see the Cirque Du Soleil’s Beatles “Love” show, which was also incredible.
The song up there is cool.
Hi Scott
The Grand Canyon isn’t over-named…
Hah! The thought “Make America Grand Again” just crossed my mind.
I prefer
make cheese grate again
but that might just be because I want cheese (and we don’t have any)
….but only just before use. Not in advance.
Aaaaaand it’s certainly not “Make America Grate Again”, ’cause it’s been grating for awhile.
Then again Canada’s all “Aren’t we great?”, which also can’t help but grate.
Great.
Karl Lagerfeld, of the wattle-hiding extra-high collars, is finally dead.
(Of course, when you’re dead, it tends to be final.)
The Beeb have been covering his death a lot today
His gowns have just gone up in value.
that doesn’t surprise me at all
I think it was wag who, upon learning of Elvis’s death, quipped “great career move”. (Da best, blackest humour…)
The US sailor famously photographed kissing a stranger in New York’s Times Square to celebrate the end of World War Two has died aged 95.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47287116
How dare all these people DIE anyway?
And leave us ALL ALONE?!
you mean that they had the audacity to stop living without seeking prior permission
Hi guys!
I too enjoy the Skye Wallace track.
I am getting closer to starting a show on our community radio station. It will only be an hour to begin with, probably on Sunday evening. I am excited and terrified at the same time. I am calling it The Basement right now and will tie it in with the playlists here with occasional guests and other topics.
Contrats!
Tanks!