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SUMMARY:Great Lake Swimmers
LOCATION:SPACE
DESCRIPTION:Capturing light is not easy: ask any outdoor photographer. In o
 rder to capture the perfect shot\, one has to be ready for fragmentary shi
 fts in illumination. In that spirit\, Caught Light is Great Lake Swimmers 
 ninth album\, and perhaps their most nimble: be prepared\, dont overthink
 \, act fast.Founder Tony Dekker has always been akin to a wildlife photogr
 apher\, often choosing to make records in unique surroundings with a conne
 ction to Ontario history. This time\, he holed up in the Ganaraska Forest
 \, between Peterborough and Port Hope\, with producer Darcy Yates (Bahamas
 ) and engineer Jimmy Bowskill (Blue Rodeo). Their goal was to tap the warm
 th of early 70s folk/pop/rock\, whether it be the cozy sonic sweater of Go
 rdon Lightfoots classic work\, or the gentleness of underrated American so
 ngwriter Dory Previn. Dekker made everyone listen to John Martyns 1971 alb
 um Bless the Weather before the session.For the first time\, Dekker ceded 
 control to a producer\, albeit one who had once been the bassist in Great 
 Lake Swimmers (2007-08). Yates chose the studio and the backing band\, whi
 ch included veteran drummer Gary Craig (Bruce Cockburn\, Jann Arden)\, who
  Dekker calls the Jim Keltner of Canada. Tracking was completed in three d
 ays\, Nashville-style\, with only two days of overdubs\, including Colleen
  Browns backing vocals. Compare that with 2023s Uncertain Country\, which 
 took three pandemic-stricken years to make.Caught Light was captured in th
 e shortest amount of time Dekker had ever spent making a record\, and its 
 likely to be the one with perhaps the longest impact. Thats because Caught
  Light is not just the most fully realized Great Lake Swimmers album in ye
 ars\, but it also leads off with two of Dekkers strongest singles.One More
  Dance Around the Sun is an open-window\, summer-driving song to accompany
  a golden-hour trip through the backroads of your childhood hometown. Dekk
 er himself moved back to the Niagara area during the pandemic\, with his p
 artner and two young children. I spent the first half of my life trying to
  get out of the small town where I was born and raised\, and Im spending t
 he second half getting back there\, says the songwriter who lived in Toron
 to his entire adult life until now. Its an ode to the familiarity and the 
 joy in that and the repetition of seeing the same faces and places\, knowi
 ng all of that very well. Its also important to feel grounded in community
 \, to feel the power of that in a specific place\, keeping ones moral comp
 ass fixed in the right direction.\n\nBoletos: https://www.ticketweb.com/ev
 ent/great-lake-swimmers-space-tickets/14197794
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