Even I can “remember the night she left” when Matthew Houck sings “Bad News From Home.” Hell, being “high on a cliff in Mexico” could’ve happened, too. While it’s all a figment of Randy Newman’s mind, this song feels beautifully real when Phosphorescent does it.
One of now six covers from the ongoing The Full Moon Project, this recording has a vibe you only find once in a blue. The guitar is a dry, sandy beach against low-tide waves echoing ashore. A keyboard lights horizons as the loneliness only a beach at night might achieve sets in.
Having loved To Willie, Phosphorescent’s 2009 last covers set, and Houck’s C’est La Vie, Muchacho, et al., I’ll be counting down the days from tonight’s new moon until the moon fills next with good tunes.