Songs From A Stolen Guitar

Description

A discreet yet essential figure in American songwriting since the early 1990s, Simon Joyner has established himself as one of the most personal heirs to Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, or Townes Van Zandt, to the point of being regularly cited as an influence by Conor Oberst, Kevin Morby, or Gillian Welch. Recorded between Omaha, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Denver during the height of the pandemic, Songs From A Stolen Guitar brings together musicians scattered across the United States, each recording their parts remotely before the final assembly. This constraint fuels an album of great coherence, where songs like Caroline's Got a Secret, The Stolen Guitar, or Morning Light explore solitude, grief, and memory with a rare precision in writing, supported by deliberately stripped-down arrangements that leave ample room for the power of the lyrics.