Hearing Ralegh Long's music can sometimes seem like discovering the work of some amazing lost singer-songwriter from the Seventies, only with the huge added bonus that he is alive, present and working today, currently finishing his debut full-length album due out on Gare du Nord next Spring.
This refreshing breeze of a song, on the other hand, has been released before as the opener to Ralegh's 2012 mini-album “The Gift”, featuring his band (Will Lamport and Richard Ellis) as well as a beautiful pedal steel part from Jack Hayter.
We are told that Elizabeth doesn't really exist (although now she does in our heads, which is the beauty of great songwriting): “It's entirely fictional and it's more about states of mind and an attempt to express a specific feeling,” Ralegh says, “Indecision/vacillation in the rainy home counties.” So long as the one clear path in his life leads to gorgeous choruses such as this...
