“My vinyl collection is mostly country and folk and old pop / Motown—a steady rotation of things I want to sing along to. There’s Patsy Cline, Bobbie Gentry, Hank Williams, Kris Kristofferson, Tim Hardin, Bob Lind, and Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, Velvet Underground’s Loaded, The Supremes, the Motown collection.”
“I have a Motown Story album where the artists are interviewed between songs. I love how Diana Ross says something along the lines of, ‘They made us record the final vocal on the first or second take because they didn’t want us to know the song too well. They wanted it to feel fresh. Nothing stale, nothing over-rehearsed. That way we sound young and energetic.’ I’ve always related to that sentiment and love the way she expresses it.
The one modern record in steady rotation is my friend Kevin Morby’s Singing Saw, which feels as timeless as the other records I mentioned.
Many of the albums I’d talk about on a first date, however, aren’t albums I have on vinyl. I don’t know why, but I tend to listen to old records on vinyl and newer albums digitally, even though I love seeing the blown-up artwork of vinyl.
The first date records I’d talk about are probably the ones that shaped my musical foundation when I was a teenager. Those are the records that inspired me to start writing songs: Yo La Tengo’s And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, Air’s Virgin Suicides soundtrack, every Joanna Newsom record, lots of Modest Mouse, Ben Kweller’s Sha Sha, and so so many more.”
—Greta Morgan
Springtime Carnivore’s Midnight Room arrives in stores on October 7, 2016 via Autumn Tone Records.
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