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Boy From Tupelo

from Disappear Here by Hannah McPhillimy

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This is the first of two covers Jan requested I tackle for the project.

Jan explains her choice below:

"This song is taken from Red Dirt Girl, Emmylous Harris' first album made up of songs predominantly written by herself. Provoked by the death of her father Harris began to write songs based on her memories of people and places which had already disappeared.

Boy from Tupelo, is both a snapshot of Harris’s memories of her time spent with Gram Parsons, the Byrds are name checked when she mentions their album Sweetheart of the Rodeo, a reference to Elvis Presley who was born in Tupelo and a list of all sorts of American icons already beginning to disappear into the ether.

When I came to write Malcolm Orange Disappears, I had already written a number of short stories based around the idea of a vanishing American culture and I’d begun to notice that people, were also inclined to disappear. Old age, suffering and life experience can begin to erode a person’s character so they feel like there is very little of themselves left. This novel is full of characters who are disappearing. Some are losing their eyesight, their hearing, their memories, their libido and all the various indignities visited upon people in their old age. Others are losing their very sense of self and beginning to doubt everything they believed to be true. Malcolm Orange is actually, physically beginning to disappear and whilst he is the main protagonist in the novel, the holes which appear all through his arms and legs were always intended to give the reader a very visual metaphor for how the other characters must be feeling"

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from Disappear Here, released July 22, 2015

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