The record we just put out, Summertime Songs, is a high-production value record, almost like a Peter Gabriel record. So, performing the songs in different ways helps me stay attached to them. You can connect with them in many different ways -you can hold them on the front then turn them over and learn another side. They are these weird packages of story, history and longing.
#Story of my life song artist full
They tend to inform each other - I learn something about doing a full band set when I play solo and vice versa. It’s fun to go back to just voice and guitar with these songs because I get to check in on the emotional core of them. With a full band, there’s an intentional emphasis on sound design and environments that are emotionally resonant. They are an integral part of this current project. Many of your songs started by you writing on an acoustic - I’m curious, having just finished an acoustic set and then playing with a full band tomorrow, what is the transition like? Photo by: Loreen Kelley via Boston Calling Upon chuckling over our mutual love for notebooks, Porterfield and I jumped right in to the summertime sea of words like a 60 second distance run across a tightrope, never to look back. The setting can change - be it sitting upon a stoop with an acoustic or plugged in at high volume, but the intent does not. Regardless, through his own experiences, Porterfield invites you into Field Report’s world of human connection. Half empty and call it a day? Or half full and squeeze until the ring bolts to your palm? Is this a relationship up in flames or one of slight hope where each person is holding on to the ring for dear life with one hand? Shaking. You can choose your perspective through the muck and mire. This collection of isolated Summertime Songs lyrics reads like a poem with a narrative focusing on a relationship journey of ups-and-downs. Or perhaps a better way of putting it - the stories Porterfield reports from an open, yet navigated field. Listening intently to the new record, I was instantly reminded of what sets Field Report apart - it’s the rich layout of words Porterfield precisely places upon his canvas. I recently sat with frontman, Chris Porterfield, shortly after his solo acoustic set at Boston Calling, which was also 24 hours before Field Report’s full band set on Sunday afternoon. I don’t trust this moment, but I want to believeĪbove, lies a profound lyric from each song in sequence off Field Report’s new record, Summertime Songs. Gathering all the clues you left for me to find, if I could still live inside your occupied mind There’s a couple ways this works and a thousand ways it can’t The good days come in waves, they crest and crash I see you every time I go and every time I think of home If one of us is the ocean and if one of us is the moon, we haven’t found a pattern yet, figured out who is pulling who We ate the fruit, learned the truth, and spit the pits in the corner of the room Interview with frontman, Chris Porterfield: talking songwriting, the influence of Milwaukee, and the power of connecting through new musicĬheck the wreckage, walk away ok.