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Our song "Dream the Sun" was inspired by a tattoo meant to signify our confidence that the sun will rise, something we can believe even when the night is most dark and the sun is below the horizon. For additional sizes, please visit pinkertonraid.com/merch
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The world, our world, as something we can almost hold in our hands, but not quite -- it's a theme that runs through our 2022 album THE HIGHWAY MOVES THE WORLD. You can hear it in the lyrics, you can see it in the music-videos for "Lisbet Cries" and the title track. And you can wear it! For print-to-order on additional sizes, please visit pinkertonraid.com/merch
The Pinkerton Raid was a sibling band for most of its existence, from the time Katie DeConto joined her brother Jesse's songwriting outlet in 2011 to the time their brother Steven left the band in 2018. The growth of the band coincided with Katie's building her own businesses: the grassroots, collaborative co-working space Mercury Studio and the local arts market The Makery. Just when the partners for those two businesses were joining forces and moving to a new location, which turned out to be susceptible to frequent flooding, the band was also releasing and touring on its second album.
"This all sounds very cool and exciting, but the pressure was intense and constant and a lot of things went wrong," says Katie. "I was in a pretty dark place, loving the work I'd made for myself, mostly helping others pursue their dreams, but waking up each day, feeling paralyzed by the weight. It was hard to feel anything but grief, disappointment, exhaustion and isolation."
Later, when the drainage problem was fixed and things had settled down at the merged business now called The Mothership, and with the band working on its third album, Katie thought about how she might have felt differently if she'd known with certainty that things would get better.
"When the night is at its darkest, we never doubt that the sun will come back," she says. "I wanted to have the same faith in my life that, even when things feel inescapably grim, nothing lasts forever."
So Katie got a tattoo on her right shoulder, a simple line drawing of the sun underneath a mountain range, before it rises.
"Even when you can't see it, the sun is still there, and getting closer every minute," Katie says.
When Katie finally quit the band in 2017, Jesse knew she was cutting things from her life that triggered the stress and the weariness. A year later, after he and a new band of collaborators had released its fourth album, Jesse noticed the commonality of his newest unrecorded songs all being written about close family relationships. He started leaning into that source material. Jesse wrote "Dream the Sun" as a blessing and a hope for Katie to enjoy the peace of saying 'no' to things and the rest from constant struggle to create, build and achieve.
"Dream the Sun" will be part of The Pinkerton Raid's fifth full-length album.
lyrics
You were born in winter, with months of Sundays left in dark.
How far could new eyes see? To dream the light in icy fog?
Beware the ides of February, stinging fingers cling through spring.
A baby knows no cold; her mother's arms a fever dream.
Dream brighter. Dream brighter.
Dream the sun before it rises.
Dream, the sun will rise.
You sing our sweetest dreams, the oohs and ahs for all our songs.
It's time to sing your own. It's time to dream your own.
Dream brighter. Dream brighter.
Dream the sun before it rises.
Dream, the sun will rise.
You set places for everyone, no celebration left undone.
You make the plans, call forth the crowd,
now sip your wine in quiet love
Dream quieter. Dream quieter.
Dream the sun before it rises.
Dream, the sun will rise.
credits
from The Highway Moves the World,
track released March 19, 2020
(c) 2020 Jesse James DeConto (ASCAP, Clarendon Street Press), all rights reserved
Produced and engineered by David Wimbish at Arbor Ridge Studios
Mastered by Greg Abate at Neon Audio
Jesse James DeConto, vocals + electric guitar
David Wimbish, acoustic guitar, vocals
Jon DePue, bass
Scott McFarlane, drums
Words seem too simple to describe the energy and joy and humanity of this music and these people ... there's just life in it, is all we can say. The Pinkerton Raid
Sean is a provocateur and an entertainer -- he recalls Dylan's later flamboyance, Bowie's baritone, Prince's musicianship. There's just so much good and beautiful in what he does. The Pinkerton Raid
Wonderful... some of Hiatt's best songs are here. I've been a fan since Riding with the King. This is gloriously played, too. What a band. anthonytoner
Elizabeth Morris of Allo Darlin’ returns with a new group! “Winter Sun” is a tender blend of pastoral folk and diary-like lyrics. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 8, 2019
