A heartfelt new single from San Francisco-based artist Patrick Costello, “You Can’t Ask the Wind To not Blow” embraces a timeless bluegrass inspiration in its riveting sound — melding impactful strings and twangy guitars amidst a memorable vocal presence, exhibiting each longing adoration and mourning. The monitor is a tribute to Costello’s loving spouse of 20 years, Erica Ziegler, who handed away solely two months following a most cancers prognosis.
“The method of writing, recording and producing this valuable music has been extremely cathartic for me, and my coronary heart goes out to anybody and anybody who has misplaced a beloved one to the inexplicable cruelty of most cancers,” Costello says.
Erica beloved bluegrass music — and Costello absolutely embraces that styling throughout the monitor, which additionally options Erica’s favourite bluegrass musician, Mike Witcher, along with a forged of proficient gamers — Chad Manning on fiddle, Mark Schatz on acoustic bass, Jesse Appleman on mandolin, and Tom Finch on 12 and 6-string guitar.
Plucky guitars and solemn strings ease in as Costello’s vocals stream with clear adoration: “She lit my coronary heart on fireplace 20 years in the past, the place the time went, I don’t know.” His touching vocals proceed: “I by no means beloved somebody a lot, however now I do know, you possibly can’t ask the wind to not blow.” The beautiful folks and bluegrass manufacturing performs with tender, melodic attraction, because the lyrics ruminate on Erica’s loving impression, and likewise the fleeting nature of time and mortality — capturing the tragic imminence of life and demise through the title-touting chorus. “You Can’t Ask the Wind To not Blow” is a stirring showcase in introspective songwriting and love-filled emotion from Costello.
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The monitor can also be featured within the genre-based, best-of Spotify compilation Rising Indie Folks.
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