Eamon Fogarty’s 2019 lp Blue Values brought a jazzy, art-pop sheen to the songwriter’s cryptic and charmingly esoteric words. A winner from start to finish, it’s lingered on the turntable for quite sometime. For his very first Lagniappe Session, Fogarty teamed with drummer Ryan Jewell (Solar Motel, Ryley Walker) and his selections veer into the unexpected, covering Pacheco & Alexander’s “Since I Was Born” and Carole King’s “A Road to Nowhere.”
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Eamon Fogarty :: I Am The Cosmos (Chris Bell)
Covering former Big Star guitarist Chris Bell’s 1978 ballad “I Am the Cosmos,” progressive art-rocker Eamon Fogarty manages to thread the needle, honoring the original’s ache while also tearing it apart via a Sonny Sharrock-style free jazz freakout.