Before You Go Chasing The Sun

Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon “Sweet June Nectar”

“Sweet June Nectar” has an an arrangement that offers a steady drip of pleasant surprises, from when it shifts from a blue-eyed soul piano ballad into a more Burt Bacharach-ish space, or when it moves from cinematic strings to an extended scorcher of a guitar solo by Jeff Parker over the extended outro. It’s remarkable how seamlessly this song moves between a casual intimate feel and a more dramatic and epic sense of scale, and how this happens without losing the thread of gentle soulfulness in the vocal performance. I hear a lot of Jeff Buckley in Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon’s voice, in both his tone and phrasing. The white boy soul thing comes very naturally to him, but he doesn’t overdo it. As with everything in this song, the dynamics are perfectly modulated.

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