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It was more than ten years in the making, worth every captured moment. Elijah Ford releases Every Time We Separate next week.
Elijah Ford‘s Every Time We Separate was supposed to come out in 2020. As you may recall, a pause for all humanity around that time set the release date back. Way back. In addition, starting studio and touring work as a bassist for Gary Clark, Jr. kept it under wraps until this year. But the extended incubation has given Ford’s meticulously crafted LP a deeper connection to being a time capsule, reliving moments of his life between two very different locations, Laguna Beach, CA and Austin.
Ford had amassed these songs over a ten-year span as he worked with various producers and engineers to reach the sonic environment that felt like the right fit.
“I wanted to make something vindicating and life-affirming out of the distance between the idea we have of ourselves and reality, and how that plays out in our relationships,” says Ford. “Everyone has periods of shame/self-loathing and getting stuck in old habits; these songs are my way of looking these periods straight in the eye and trying to sort them out.”
Ford continues his Thursday night residency at C-Boy’s with a show tomorrow, featuring Jo Alice and songwriter Evan Charles’ rock-pop outfit The Let Down on the bill. The music starts at 10 p.m.
