{"product_id":"656605246819","title":"TONKY | VINYL RECORD (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLonnie Holley, There are poets like the great Mary Oliver, who might  suggest that one's primary function when moving through the  world, for as long as they have life and the ability to move through  the world, is to play close attention to that which others may foolishly  call small, or quotidian. The brain and heart are both containers, with  as much space as you wish for them to have, and to live is to create  collections of found affections. Sounds from your beloved and  familiar blocks, movements of the trees and the people beneath  them, the way someone you adore may hold you for a few lingering  seconds before releasing from a hug and vanishing into a crowded  crosswalk. To think of our living, our making, and our loving in this  way means that, at least for some of us, we may be propelled forward  by the prospect of what's next. What moment we can hold and place  in our overflowing pockets.  The work of Lonnie Holley is, for me, a work of this kind of  accumulation and close attention. The delight of finding a sound  and pressing it up against another found sound and another until,  before a listener knows it, they are awash in a symphony of sound  that feels like it stitches together as it is washing over you. Tonky is  an album that takes it's name from a childhood nickname that was  affixed to Holley when he lived a portion of his childhood life in a  honky tonk. Lonnie Holley's life of survival and endurance is one that  required - and no doubt still requires - a kind of invention. An  invention that is also rich and present in Holley's songs, which are full  and immersive on Tonky, an album that begins with it's longest song,  a nine minute, exhaustive marathon of a tune called \"Seeds,\" which  begins with a single sparse sound and then expands. Chants, faint  keys, strings, and atop it all, Holley's voice, not singing, but speaking  plainly about working the earth when he was young, the violence he  endured in the process of it all, going to bed bloodied and in pain  from beatings. The song expands into a metaphor about place,  about the failures of home, or anywhere meant to protect you not  living up to what it sells itself to be, even if you tirelessly work at it,  work on it, work to make something worthwhile of it.  \"Seeds\" not only sets the tone for an album that revolves  around rebirth, renewal, and the limits of hope and faith, but it  highlights what Holley's greatest strength as a musician is, to me,  which is a commitment to abundance, and generosity. He is an  incredibly gifted storyteller with a commitment to the oral tradition,  such that many listeners (myself among them,) would be entirely  content sitting at the feet of a Lonnie Holley record and turning an  ear to his robust, expansive storytelling. But Tonky is an album as  expansive in sound as it is in making a place for a wide range of  featured artists to come through the door of the record and feel at  home, no matter how they spend the time they get on a song.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HOLLEY,LONNIE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48241464738037,"sku":"656605246819","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/9325\/5669\/files\/0656605246819.jpg?v=1780880921","url":"https:\/\/thevinylvista.com\/products\/656605246819","provider":"Vinyl Vista","version":"1.0","type":"link"}