Night Shop
Let Me Let it Go
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Today we’re listening to “Let Me Let It Go” by Night Shop
Living on the back side of the clock has a way of warping your worldview. Your workday usually starts as everyone else’s is winding down, and the light you see is rarely from the sun.
It’s a world of tail lights, bad coffee, and fluorescent lighting. And if you’re a musician, you can add highways and a blur of white lines to the mix. It’s a world full of characters you’d think “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” was written about.
Maybe they think that too. Either way, they all have interesting stories.
For years, this was the ocean Justin Sullivan swam in. As a drummer for the likes of Kevin Morby, The Babies, and Waxahatchee, he saw more than his share of 9 PM starts. That can be hard for even the best of us, and by 2017, he was burnt out enough to consider coming in off the road for good.
Instead, he took a little time to recalibrate. Trading his drum kit for a six-string, he began performing under the Night Shop moniker. Forever Night follows 2020’s The Fountain, with songs alternating between telling the stories of those people and Sullivan’s own.
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Sullivan continues the upbeat energy on “Let Me Let It Go”, which tickles with the panache of Elvis Presley and the craftiness of a young Jerry Lee Lewis. Even a bit of a young Johnny Cash pops in the guitar work and Sullivan’s observational songwriting style. As the grizzled guitars crosses with the hand clap-inducing rhythms, Sullivan explores the many different ways love can be expressed, and, in turn, how it can benefit and divide. His songwriting is brilliant.
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Listen:
“Let me Let it Go” by Night Shop| Forever Night, 2022
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This one immediately made me think of Georgia Satellites for some reason, but the second listen evoked Springsteen. Definitely want to check out the whole album.