Big Love Car Wash “Dream Journal”
Americana Highways brings you this video premiere of Big Love Car Wash’s song “Dream Journal,” from their forthcoming debut album Vignettes Vol. 1 : Quiet Reverie, due to be released on March 14. Vignettes Vol. 1 : Quiet Reverie was recorded and mixed by Joseph Holguin of Arlyn Studios, and mastered by Andrew Oedel.
Musicians on “Dream Journal” are David Rabinowicz (songwriter) on guitar and lead vocals; Sol Chase on mandolin and harmony vocals; Everett Wren on fiddle and shaker; and Taylor Turner on double bass.
This video was directed and edited by Wil Kelly with second camera by Merrick Chase and audio by Joseph Holguin of Arlyn Studios. The video provides a private show of the four piece band playing their stringed instruments in semi – sepiatone at Arlyn Studios. “Dream Journal” starts out with dreamy swirls of mandolin repeating to form the initial rhythm and a dreamlike confession of deep hope as the rest of the band joins in: “I used to wish for a brief reprieve, I used to wish for clean mountain air, I dreamed a dream of … sitting back and gazing at the sky.” Big Love Car Wash eases their way into your imagination with a song of intrinsically wishing for things to be better – and a vision for beautiful natural settings to return and for our troubles to vanish, a dream that avoids “screwing up, with plastic forks and paper cups and living someone else’s life.” It’s quite lovely.
When I wrote “Dream Journal,’ the concept, lyrics, and melody came to me as a package, like I couldn’t have any one without the others. When I brought it to the band, the arrangement fell into place almost effortlessly. I comfortably trusted my bandmates to bring their own energy to Dream Journal, and I feel we achieved my “original vision” for the song (whatever that was) in a way I couldn’t have dreamed of doing alone. The whole process has felt incredibly organic—it was like I didn’t write the song at all. Instead, I watched it unfold, each part revealing itself in real time, as if the song was always there waiting to be heard. – David Rabinowicz
Find more details here on the band’s website: https://www.biglovecarwash.com/