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SUMMARY:An evening with Jaimee Harris at Cafe No9
LOCATION:Sheffield Cafe No9
DESCRIPTION:- Jaimee Harris turned 30 during the pandemic. It’s a milest
 one that is a rite of passage even during normal times. But for this Texas
 -born singer-songwriter\, it came in the midst of one of the strangest and
  most tumultuous periods in American history. When the world stopped durin
 g lockdown\, Harris\, like many others\, found herself gazing back into th
 e past\, ruminating on the nature of her hometown and family origins\, and
  reckoning with their imprint on her. The term ‘nostalgia’ derives fro
 m the Greek words nostos (return) and algos (pain)\, and if Harris’s Boo
 merang Town can be regarded as a nostalgic album\, it is only nostalgic in
  the sense that the longing for home is a desire to return to the past and
  heal old wounds.“I’m at an age where I’m wrestling with trying to u
 nderstand the nature of my family\,” Harris says. “There’s been suic
 ide\, suicide ideation\, and there’s certainly been addiction all throug
 h my family. My dad’s father died of suicide when he was 25 and I was 5.
  I couldn’t imagine not having my dad right now.”Harris’s sophomore 
 effort\, Boomerang Town marks a bold step forward for this country-folk-le
 aning singer-songwriter. It is an arresting\, ambitious song-cycle that ex
 plores the generational arc of family\, the stranglehold of addiction\, an
 d the fragile ties that bind us together as Americans.For Harris\, the alb
 um began gestating around 2016\, a time of great loss for many in the Amer
 icana community\, with the songwriter losing several musicians close to he
 r. The shift in the nation’s political landscape had ushered in a new le
 vel of polarization that saw whole swaths of cultural life being demonized
 . For someone who grew up in a small town outside of Waco\, Harris believe
 d the values instilled in her by her parents were not entirely in line wit
 h how many on the left were viewing — and vilifying — Christians\, cit
 ing them as responsible for the new change in leadership. As a person in r
 ecovery\, Harris has had to re-evaluate her own connection to faith and fi
 nd strength in a higher power (“Though he’s not necessarily a blue-eye
 d Jesus\,” she laughs)\, though she certainly knows what it’s like to 
 “be told how to vote” in a Southern church setting. It was from the in
 tersection of these social\, personal\, and political currents the album w
 as born. And while much of the material on Boomerang Town was inspired by 
 personal experience\, the songs on this collection are far from autobiogra
 phical xeroxed copies. More than anything\, they come from a place of emot
 ional truth.Boomerang Town traces the fortunes of a host of characters who
  live on the knife’s edge between hope and despair. The title track\, wh
 ose sound recalls the best of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s ’90s work\, feat
 ures a young couple from a small-town working dead-end jobs who get “kno
 cked up” and have their dreams put on hold. It is a portrait of rural de
 speration and the restless search for salvation against long odds. “This
  is what it’s like to be a part of the post- “‘Born To Run’ Genera
 tion\,” Harris quips. “Springsteen’s generation had somewhere to run
  to. I’m not so sure mine does.” For the characters in these songs\, e
 scape isn’t always a matter of geographical distance.“I tried a lot of
  perspectives [on this one]\,” Harris says about writing the title track
 . “My parents are high-school sweethearts and I was an accident and they
 ’re still happily married. I worked at Wal-Mart when I was 19. I reflect
 ed on this guy who was the brother of a good friend of mine. He didn’t d
 rop out. He knocked up his girlfriend and went into the military. Certainl
 y [the song] is a combination of me and not me. It was me thinking about w
 hat might have gone differently for my parents\, who are still in Waco and
  own a business there.” Harris’s father\, whom she counts as a big sup
 porter and responsible for much of her musical education\, took her to the
  first Austin City Limits Music Festival\, where she had the life-changing
 \, Eureka moment of seeing Emmylou Harris\, Patty Griffin\, and Buddy and 
 Julie Miller perform on stage at the same time. It was then the young Harr
 is knew what she had to do. She had found her ticket out. Harris continues
 : “Why was I able to get out of my boomerang town? Why are others stuck 
 there\, longing to leave but unable to find their way out? Writing these s
 ongs\, bringing these narrators to life\, brought me closer to the answers
 \,” she says.Themes of grief and addiction permeate other sections of th
 e record. “How Could You Be Gone\,” which Harris wrote with her partne
 r\, the venerable folk songwriter Mary Gauthier\, reflects on the passing 
 of a close friend during the pandemic\, as well as the 2017 death of Harri
 s’s mentor and compadre Jimmy LaFave\, a long-time fixture on the Americ
 ana scene who succumbed to cancer. “It’s been my experience that grief
  operates on its own timeline\,” Harris says. “I wanted this track to 
 build and repeat with intensity to mirror the experience of relentless gri
 ef.” Another song\, “Fall (Devin’s Song)\,” is about a former chil
 dhood classmate of Harris’s who was accidentally shot and killed in the 
 sixth grade. The song was inspired by a series of “In Memoriam” pieces
  the boy’s mother wrote to the local paper\, and the song serves as a tr
 ibute to both of them\, as well as a commentary on the timeless nature of 
 grief. One of the album’s standout tracks is the lilting\, Irish-influen
 ced “The Fair And Dark Haired Lad\,” a Chicks type-number that grapple
 s with the seductive nature of alcohol. Another tune that deals with the d
 emon rum\, “Sam’s\,” is far more dirge-like\, and its dark\, circula
 r melody mirrors the claustrophobia and sense of trapping that comes with 
 the onset of addiction and mental collapse. Boomerang Town is not entirely
  a lament\, however\, with songs like “Love is Gonna Come Again” and t
 he wistful “Missing Someone” shining with hope in the face of the dark
 ness. For this is a record that understands that love and grief are two si
 des of the same coin. It also announces the arrival of a great new songwri
 ter on the scene. “My goal is to just write the best possible song I can
  write\,” Harris says\, “and I wanted to have ten songs that made sens
 e together sonically. I still believe in the album format\, and I wanted t
 o lay the groundwork as a solid songwriter.” On Boomerang Town\, Jaimee 
 Harris\, who was able to find her way out — unlike so many others — ha
 s accomplished all that\, and much more. *********************************
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