London-via-Michigan folk artist Spitzer Space Telescope takes us back in time with new song and video “Rovin’ is Me Pleasure”. Spitzer Space Telescope, also-known-as Dan MacDonald, delivers a timeless song and performance full of melody and restless, insistent rhythm. The retro-looking visual is a good match for the vintage banjo and acoustic guitar, which bounce along with a tuneful sense of urgency.
Drawing on the work of The Clancy Brothers, the song recounts MacDonald’s troubadour travels as a busker across Ireland and the UK. He explains: “Cosplaying this Kerouacian troubadour life that a Midwesterner would only read about in a book. There’s nothing but joy in that song.”
This is the second single from the Spitzer Space Telescope II EP, which has just been released. MacDonald’s new take on old folk-forms has won him widespread critical acclaim and he has appeared at the likes of SXSW and Green Man festival. Also a professional oil painter, MacDonald has spent the last decade touring Europe and the USA, exploring and shaking up existing folk traditions. MacDonald says his new EP is, “…a compilation of everything,” as he collects together styles and sounds from different places and the past, making them his own. Enjoy.
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