We spoke with kevinmorby ahead of the release of his new album, where he reflected on the importance of old family photographs and the importance of place
grew up in Overland Park, Kansas, a suburb roughly 20 minutes outside of downtown Kansas City. We’ve both lived here at different points in time, and as we chat in Union Station, a historic landmark in the heart of the city, we instantly make connections over high schools, street intersections, and formative memories.
“I had read that Jeff Buckley had tried to get a job at the Memphis Zoo shortly before dying, which is very strange,” Morby says. “He was trying to be the butterfly keeper. He just really liked it there. I was spending time at the Memphis Zoo. It was an outdoor, nice thing to do. There’s a plaque for him there that Columbia Records donated when he died.”
On the title track, he sings about leafing through those photographs. He stumbles upon a photo of his “father on the front lawn with no shirt on” — an image that parallels what Morby had seen not long before writing that song. After a health scare, his father had fallen down, and Morby jumped out of his chair, held his father’s head with one hand, and snapped his fingers with the other in front of his father’s face.
“Because I love playing music more than anything,” he says, “it’s gonna be cathartic for me to be saying that and quite literally mean it.”
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