Feature Friday 4 : She Said Save Me (Canada Day Edition)

      A week or so ago I was biking on a trail not far from my house, and aside from the usual high school class graffiti I noticed a small tag on a bridge abutment, slightly below a crude drawing of a breast and almost fully concealed by weeds. I snatched my dads camera and let my natural curiosity lead me. "She Said Save Me", these words when in close proximity to statements about who shagged who and how big some idiot's member is, were strangely haunting. A couple days ago when  I got the pictures sent to me I let my curiosity take control again, typing the phrase into Google, I got nothing interesting, but on Facebook it was a whole other story. It turns out that it was the band name of a local artist, completely obscure, I mean if you want his tracks head on over to Facebook, or Reverbnation, cause not even will you find these gems on Youtube.

     Theres something completely down to earth about folk music, its so... well for lack of better words, true, true to form. The vocals have to be the focal point here, as this genre focuses more on the absence of instruments and the poetry of the lyrics. Every song is a story told from the heart, played gently with an acoustic guitar for rhythm and feeding of nothing more than the life experiences of a man with a six string. She Said Save Me, is a perfect example of folk music, and the discovery of an artist of this caliber in what might as well be my home town is beyond luck. Before now the only local bands I had heard tended to drift more towards death metal, and really thats just a drone of heavy riffs, blast beats and pig squeals, made worse by the fact that the members are beyond amateur. That doesn't merit any emotions other than rage and hatred, where as the tracks from his two EPs, Emerson and Holly Golightly, encourage you to think, to love, to feel, and I can't believe any other music could make today what it is.  

*Update:     I was in fact mistaken when I said Joe's music could not be found on Youtube, actually there's quite a lot of it there from many different users... I'll need to spend more time digging in the future. Also if you want to get to know a bit more about this artist check his modest interview with Absolute Punk here.