Rodney Crowell has released his second single ‘Transient Global Amnesia Blues’ from his forthcoming album – Triage – that will be released on 23rd July 2021.
Rodney Crowell has released the second single and video from his upcoming album Triage – “Transient Global Amnesia Blues.” Haroula Rose, the director of the video shares, “Conceptually, I wanted to capture what Rodney explained as his experience with Transient Global Amnesia. A sort of fever dream. And, I’m happy when he says we got that right. We shot the footage of him at The Castle Recording Studios in Franklin, TN out in the back forested area, and at the river where Susanna Clark’s ashes were spread. I used a lot of archival footage and personal artifacts of Rodney’s to create some sense of cohesiveness – remembering life and its moments of being disoriented but also being found.”
“Transient Global Amnesia Blues” reflects the introspective quality of this entire record, one that Rodney calls his most personal to date, and like all great songs – the lyrics are expansive enough for everyone to relate. But they were born of a very singular experience. Rodney explains, “One morning after a long walk, I asked my wife, Claudia, the same question nine times before she loaded me into the car and sped off to the hospital. The next thing I remember is being shoved into an MRI machine. Transient Global Amnesia, a benign form of amnesia that in ninety-eight percent of cases never returns, was the diagnosis—an overnight stay in the hospital the prescribed treatment. The next morning my daughter texted a photograph of a sunflower growing on a piece of driftwood on the Thames River. I had most of the song written before leaving the hospital at noon. Four days later I had a finished recording.”
This new collection of songs was written during the great political, climate and economic upheaval that has marked recent years. The noise of that chaos encouraged the songwriter to go inside for solace and answers. The result is this series of songs that contend with these themes but approach them from a place of healing love and solution. That they are being released while we find ourselves walking through a global pandemic, is a gift of perfect timing.
As producer Dan Knobler said, “Not a moment of this album is unconsidered. Time and time again the question was asked: does each word, each note, every instrument and sonic choice serve its song? Is each song in service of the spirit of Universal Love? If not, it had to go. The result is a piece of work both Rodney and I take immense pride in.” Triage will be Rodney’s 18th studio album, his third on his own imprint, RC1 Records, and is his first with Thirty Tigers.
