Damien Jurado W/ St. Yuma at Eddie's Attic

From the venue:

Damien Jurado live at Eddie’s Attic with St. Yuma! “Play on, there’s no such thing as better days,” Damien Jurado sings on “Roger,” the sweeping opener to Reggae Film Star — his 18th full-length album and second release from his own Maraqopa Records label. As he enters his 25th year as a recording artist, these are, at the very least, very good days for Jurado on the creative front. Across 12 songs that evoke half-recalled dreams and overheard conversations, the cosmic rushes headlong into the autobiographical — specific moments on the clock fading from past to future to scenes set only in the eternal now. Playing out like a backlot documentary filmed on the location of an unnamed TV or film set, the album is populated by performers awaiting call times, camera operators praying for their shot, and studio audiences rapt with anticipation. The stars here eschew glitz and glamour — instead wandering grocery stores and parking lots in the Pacific Northwest and desert Southwest, looking for payphones and a sense of purpose. Produced by Jurado with multi-instrumentalist Josh Gordon and recording engineer Alex Bush at Sonikwire Studio in Irvine, CA, the record’s compositions are among the most musically rich in his vast discography — encompassing romantic AM gold, 1960s psychedelia, driving rock and roll, Latin shuffles, and left-of-the-dial ambiance. Strings swell, melodic bass bubbles, and piano sparkles, undergirding Jurado’s unmistakable voice — at once intimately present and ghostly, grounded in the here and now but capable, at any moment, of drifting off into the divinatory. On the beatific single “What Happened To The Class Of ’65?” Jurado imagines himself as both the viewer and the viewed — the eye behind the camera and its subject.