![]() But I’d like to record the next one in the same setting to give unity to the project, whereas this one was recorded in a number of places.ĪH: It seems like the songs each have their own genesis points, their own flashpoints that inspired them. I think it’s good that it’s an EP since it includes a lot of different directions. I really like how this EP turned out, too. I had my own bouts with depression and drinking too much for a long while, meanwhile working as a sideman.īut I’m really hoping to follow this EP with the stuff that I’ve already written that I feel very confident about. I really was a confused kid when I arrived here, and I stayed that way for a while. I was a later bloomer as a person, anyway, as a human being. It took a while to gain some confidence in my songwriting because I’m surrounded by the best around, here in Nashville. I put my first album out in 2008, but it’s been spotty in intervening years. James DiGirolamo: I’ve been songwriting for kind of a long time. Both their music, and DiGirolamo’s encourages us to allow for wide-ranging sounds and ideas in musical collections, as we discuss below.Īmericana Highways: How long have you been songwriting? James DiGirolamo joined us to talk about Paper Boats, but not before we lured him into a discussion of John Lennon’s powerhouse song “Imagine” and Paul McCartney’s mysterious ability to achieve the seemingly impossible in songwriting. ![]() From “Same Boat” which is a kind of cooperative anthem particularly in tune with our times, to “Top of the World” (the video for which premiered here on Americana Highways) and “Pure Joy” which focus on the positivity in relationships and maybe in the cosmos, too, the EP celebrates a kind of simplicity that’s not at all simple to achieve in music. The EP represents a diversity of styles musically, but the sparkling composition and reflective tone are something the songs have in common, drawing you into new ways of thinking about the world and relationships. James DiGirolamo is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based in Nashville and has performed as a sideman for many years, but from around 2018 onwards, he’s been focusing on creating and releasing his own music, especially now with his second solo release EP, Paper Boats, out on June 11th.
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