Listen: Rivers Cuomo - Longtime Sunshine
Listen to a full track from Rivers' new album, and read his exclusive notes on the track! Amazing, huh?
'Alone - The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo' is released today, and to celebrate you can listen to a full track, right here on Rocklouder!
That's not the best bit though... Read on below to see exclusive sleeve notes penned by Rivers. It's a pretty interesting read we've gotta say!
Click here to listen to 'Longtime Sunshine'.
Rivers writes:
"January, 1994
In the midst of struggling to make it as a rock star in Los Angeles, I started longing for the safety, peace, quiet, simplicity, and family structure of my New England childhood. I thought back to one of my favorite memories, lying in the bottom bunk, my brother in the top, in our bedroom in our farmhouse in Eastford, Connecticut, in the hot, hot, summer, 7, 8 p.m., sun still up, but having to go to sleep because it's our bedtime, one of those big box fans blowing, and my parents, Ma and Steve, sitting at our bedside, singing an old hippie song to us, to calm us down and ease us into sleep, "May the Long Time Sun Shine Upon You."
I borrowed the hook phrase from this song and set about writing my own song to capture my feelings of loss and longing. I wrote it on my mom's piano when I was back in Connecticut at Christmas. My mom had a piano because I told her that the house seemed too quiet and I was worried about her living in silence, all alone after my step-dad left. So that is how "Longtime Sunshine" came to exist.
When I recorded this track, I had just bought a clarinet and figured out how to play a few notes. Because of my poor embouchure it sounds very much like a kazoo."
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