It’s still hard to believe that Dallas Good died three years ago at the young age of 48, leaving a gaping hole in the Americana music scene. Yep Roc will soon be releasing the last music he worked on, an album called “Were The Watchtowers” which he was recording with his good friend Richard Reed Parry. It has been a long time in the making, bits and pieces coming together when other commitments didn’t command a priority as Perry explains: “It has been the slowest-moving musical endeavor of my entire life, we didn’t plan to do it this way; it’s just how it happened. Inching along in tiny, joyous flourishes of activity a couple times a year for over a decade, until sudden death brought it to an unexpected end.”
Of today’s song Richard Reed Parry offers: “Dallas and I met for the first time at the Dawson City Music Festival in 2008. We were thrown onto a workshop stage together and with a tiny bit of discussion but no rehearsal, we decided we’d play a gentle, echo-heavy version of ‘All I Have to Do Is Dream’ by the Everly Brothers. We were making layers and layers of beautiful, pillowy echoing guitar and upright bass feedback for what felt like a really long time, and then the audible gasp from the audience as we emerged from the dreamy intro echoes into the two part vocal harmony of that song was a feeling I’ll never forget – one of the highlights of my musical life for sure. What a feeling, showing up to perform unrehearsed music with someone you’ve never met, taking a chance and landing somewhere magical. We resolved then and there to make a record together, and ‘The Brightest Light’ is the very first song that we wrote.”
