End of My Ropeby Pokey LaFarge

www.pokeylafarge.net

Thu 7/23 @ Tractor (check with venue closer to the date); live session right here in The Roadhouse in 2017: www.youtube.com ; this song live last year: www.youtube.com ; www.pokeylafarge.net ; www.facebook.com

“I like to think of ‘End of My Rope’ as kind of a Charlie Feathers meets The Everly Brothers meets T-Rex kind of sound,” LaFarge tells Paste, continuing: For me, the foundation of the song’s meaning is in the opening line: “Growing up was easy for some, but not me, and getting older is the same old story.” So we have a subject who is looking back over all the years that have passed, and feeling all of his mistakes turned into haunting memories—memories of missed opportunities, and all the friends and acquaintances that have become so distant over the years. He has a flood or a confluence of emotions, feeling like everyone and everything has seemingly slipped through his fingers. He’s overwhelmed, but he knows there’s only one thing for a singer to do: get back up on stage and “let the spotlight shine the skin off my bones.”

New album out on April 10th

Watch his live in-studio performance at KEXP from 2017 -- www.youtube.com

Find this and the first single from Rock Bottom Rhapsody, "Fuck Me Up" here: pokeylafarge.bandcamp.com

Lafarge says the song is about someone who's "looking back over all the years that have passed, and feeling all of his mistakes turned into haunting memories—memories of missed opportunities, and all the friends and acquaintances that have become so distant over the years. He has a flood or a confluence of emotions, feeling like everyone and everything has seemingly slipped through his fingers. He’s overwhelmed, but he knows there’s only one thing for a singer to do: get back up on stage and “let the spotlight shine the skin off my bones.”" www.pokeylafarge.net