yuyi03
First heard Ashley Davis and several of her band mates perform with The Crannua Collective. I’m so glad it led me here. When the Stars Went Out is a wonderful blend of old and new songs beautifully performed!
Favorite track: When He Loved Her Too.
sonovandullivan
I wish there was more music like this, will look for it after getting this album. Really special mix of sort of bluegrassy, folky, celticy feels. Beautiful music, especially considering it was put together remotely during the pandemic.
Favorite track: Gloaming Song.
Ashley Davis’s latest album, When the Stars Went Out, is her most challenging and creative yet. The first album Davis composed in partnership with her touring band (The Ashley Davis Band) it blends the skill and influences of renowned multi-instrumentalists Dave Curley, Colin Farrell, Will MacMorran, and Duncan Wickel. Ashley’s long-time producer Gawain Mathews led production with the band. While the album’s country roots style documents an expanding American folk music tradition, the details in individual lyrics carve out a personal space of emotive expression: “If you’re from a roots background,” Davis explains, “you start to crave that space, the quiet and the purity of it.”
The AD Band also embraced the added challenge of recording virtually, under lockdown, which became an experiment in modern songwriting. With each track recorded from the artists’ homes, there was a natural volleying of creativity as the songs were built piecemeal from distant places. As the album grew, so did its virtual network as many artists from the American Roots, Irish, and Irish - American music world lent their talents to the project. Some of the names from that group are: Heidi Talbot, Tim O’Brien, Tony Furtado, Kevin Crawford, Mick McAuley, Shane Hennessy, and Grammy-award winner Shawn Colvin.
When the Stars Went Out is an album of diverse personalities, linked cohesively by Davis’s poetic, powerful vocals. It is also a living, singing archive of the pandemic, of sharing creativity together while exploring those tender, pensive moments of isolation.
When the Stars Went Out will be released on 1 September 2020, with the option of pre-order and downloads from August 1st.
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Verse 1
I am a simple man
I learned to work with my hands
Out here on these waves
I guess I’ve always known
That I would die alone here
One cold November day
Verse 2
I heard that you did take
A brother in the morning
Another without warning
And who am I to think
That I’d be any different
As God is my witness
Chorus
I saw Davey Jones
Underneath the water
With a thousand of my fathers
Calling me home
I saw Davey Jones
Waving his black flag
Counting up his bones
Verse 3
They say when I was five
The day I cast my first line
I fell over the port side
As I was sinking down
I heard my mother singing
I heard the church bells ringing
And when they pulled me in
I felt him tugging my hand
Chorus
Verse 4
Now the waves have snapped the mast
I’m taking water so fast
I let go of the line
I can feel my father’s stare
From beyond the grave somewhere
I fail him one last time
Verse 5
Cause I would never be
The man he thought I should be
The lesser of his sons
So Jesus help me now
Help me to forgive him
Before the darkness floods
Chorus
Tag
Yeah I saw Davey Jones
Waving his black flag
Counting up his bones
Verse 1
What are words when left inside a heart
I wrote to you, I always played my part
I go to bed each night and think
You'll be beside me in the morning light
But all that's left there is the spacing
For the words that maybe you would write
But after all....
Chorus
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
When I left a place for you to tell me
Everything that's wrong inside your head
But dolorem ipsum is what you left instead
Now the pain itself fills in the blanks
And in the end there's nothing to to be said
Verse 2
You would like to be a hidden star
Covering exits all around your heart
The past is still your alibi
When you were saying love is just a lie
So take a drink, call out a tune
And know that you didn't even try
But after all....
Chorus
Bridge
But after all, after all you say now what have we got to lose?
Yeah after all, after all you say this life is what we choose
Chorus
Tag
Yeah the pain itself fills in the blanks
And in the end there's nothing to to be said
Quid novi
Quid novi
Quid novi
A shadow falls around and under
I saw a cloud, I heard no thunder
My head it hangs low as I wonder
Oh how will I live out my days
How can a cloud no water streaming
Like some lone voice that isn't speaking
A deathly cold heart still a beating
How will I live out my days
The only road I had to take it
Search to find a doorstep still vacant
A bit of news paper makes a blanket
Is this how I live out my days
Oh how will I live out my days
Stars are bright the moon is lonesome
As it falls into the open
Through the trees my heart is breaking
Oh how will I live out my days
You were gone in a moment
Like the dew in the morning
Will I find you out a walking
Oh how will I live out my days
Oh how will I live out my days
Oh how will I live out my days
Oh how will I live out my days
Ashley Davis’s latest album, When the Stars Went Out, is her most challenging and creative yet. The first album Davis composed in partnership with her touring band, it blends the skill and influences of renowned multi-instrumentalists Dave Curley, Colin Farrell, Will MacMorran, and Duncan Wickel. Ashley’s long-time producer Gawain Mathews led production with the band. Stylistically, the co-written album leans more towards the country music tradition of Davis’s childhood than any of her precious releases: “If you’re from a roots background,” Davis explains, “you start to crave that space, the quiet and the purity of it.”
The Ashley Davis Band also embraced the added challenge of recording virtually, under lockdown, which became an experiment in modern songwriting. With each track recorded from the artists’ homes, there was a natural volleying of creativity as the songs were built piecemeal from distant places. As the album grew, so did its virtual network: Davis and band are joined on tracks by Irish and American artists Heidi Talbot, Tim O’Brien, Tony Furtado, John Doyle, Mick McAuley, Shane Hennessy, and Grammy-award winner Shawn Colvin.
While the album’s roots style documents an expanding American folk music tradition, the details in individual lyrics carve out a personal space of emotive expression. In each stunning melody, Davis’s extraordinary lyricism unfolds, such as this line from “Here By My Side”: “The shifting of the sands now that scare you / are the tides bringing you home.”
When the Stars Went Out is an album of diverse personalities, linked cohesively by Davis’s poetic, powerful vocals. It is also a living, singing archive of the pandemic, of sharing creativity together while exploring those tender, pensive moments of isolation.
Ashley Davis is an American singer-songwriter that sings and writes in the Roots and Celtic music world. For this album she has teamed up with her band and many special guests. See Ashley's website for more on her background.
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