“I don’t want to write out the spaces,” says New Hampshire-based singer/songwriter Jon Nolan. “I love songs you can crawl up into like a warm spot on the porch to read a book.”
Nolan may have hit on one of those with “Sea Glass,” the latest single from Slow Cooker, out September 19 via Strolling Bones. Nolan is best known for co-founding alt-country outfit Say ZuZu with his brother, James. This new project grew out of a series of jam sessions in the living room of the venerable Stone Church Music Club in the riverside town of Newmarket, not far from the University of New Hampshire.
On the first Sunday of each month, Nolan hosted the Slow Cooker Sessions, where friends would join in and play live. Things suddenly got serious when Nolan and Good Co. bassist Geoff Taylor sat down to record four of the sessions. Spending time with the material in his home studio, Nolan realized he had an album on his hands—one with a distinctly New England sense of place embodied in songs like “Sea Glass,” which was inspired by a neighboring state.
“The shore of MidCoast Maine is breathtaking,” says Nolan. “Sometimes I’ll write a linear story, and then other times a song like this happens. Sea glass is a lovely metaphor for how life unfolds.”
The video came together over an intense two-day shoot in Maine. “(Cinematographer and co-director) Jay Boyington and I knew it would benefit from a parallel, emotional narrative—not a literal one,” says Nolan, “Fans of Anna Lombard and Jon Roods’ music will be knocked out by how good their dramatic acting is.”
We’re proud to premiere Jon Nolan & Good Co.’s “Sea Glass.”
—Hobart Rowland
