From the recording Oldsmobile
"Oldsmobile" is a nostalgic journey through the youthful days when cars represented freedom, music was one of the only things that seemed to understand us, and the first times seemed like they would never end. This is about looking back on those days from the perspective of someone who did "become another casualty of society” but can't quite mark the moment it happened.
This song represents a whole new sound and style for Grant Glad & the Soo Line Loons. Having mined the depths of the narrative driven Americana sound on their last record "One Man's Story", Glad wanted to explore a different style, treating each song as more of a vignette: capturing a moment in time. The music has a more electronic bent to it, a la Bon Iver or Phoebe Bridgers, as it serves to catapult the emotional lyrics forward to really engulf the listener.
Credits
Written by Grant Glad
Producedby Hunter Hawthorne at Northland Studio
Recorded, Mixed & Engineered by Hunter Hawthorne
Mastered by Alec Ness
Grant Glad –Lead vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Hunter Hawthorne –Keys
Joe Barron - Bass Guitar
Lyrics
An Oldsmobile broke down across the street
And even though I know you haven't drove that car in years
I see you seventeen sitting there in the front seat
From when we still believed in what they told us to believe
And they'd all talk about how bright our futures they could be
But I didn't want this
Just to follow all the rules
Yea, life moves on and cars break down
But your Oldsmobile runs forever in my mind
We'd hide out in our cars and just let the radio play
Smoke in our lungs coming from your daddy's weed
Cause what's he gonna say, we weren't ever supposed to see
The world couldn't touch us, those sad songs would keep us safe
Now my radios broke and nothing in the world makes me feel that way
But I didn't want this
Just to follow all the rules
Yea, life moves on and cars break down
But your Oldsmobile runs forever in my mind
But I didn't want this
Just to follow all the rules
Yea, life moves on and cars break down
But your Oldsmobile runs forever in my mind