Daily Dose: Margaret Glaspy, “Before We Were Together”

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Two years after her stellar 2016 debut Emotions & Math, Margaret Glaspy just surprise-dropped a new EP, Born Yesterday. She’s also premiering a brand new track, “Before We Were Together,” which details a tricky breakup situation: when you’re the one doing the breaking, but it still sucks.

“I don’t like it any more than you do,” Glaspy admits over a churning guitar. “I’m damned if I do, and I’m damned if I don’t say it/ Life was better before we were together.”

“I wrote these songs on the road, in my hotel, on the plane, and at soundcheck,” Glaspy said in a press release about Born Yesterday. “They were the product of the little time that I had to myself – three songs about different sides of love: love gone wrong, love gone right, and love at a distance.”

Listen to “Before We Were Together” below, and check out Margaret Glaspy’s 2016 Daytrotter session right here.

Margaret Glaspy Tour Dates:

Mar 30 – Savannah, GA – Savannah Music Festival
Mar 31 – Decatur, GA – Eddie’s Attic
Apr 01 – Nashville, TN – Basement East
Apr 02 – Bloomington, IN – The Bishop
Apr 03 – Evanston, IL – SPACE
Apr 04 – Milwaukee, WI – Back Room at Collectivo Coffee
Apr 05 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
Apr 06 – Iowa City, IA – Mission Creek Music Festival
May 11 – Pittsburgh, PA – Warhol Museum ^
May 12 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge *
May 13 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s *
May 15 – Toronto, ON – The Drake *
May 16 – Montreal, QC – L’Esco *
May 18 – Fall River, MA – Narrows Center for the Arts *
May 19 – Northampton, MA – Parlor Room *
Jun 26 – Pasadena, CA – Arroyo Secco
Sep 14 – Portland, OR – Mission Theater ^
Sep 16 – Seattle, WA – Triple Door ^
Sep 19 – San Francisco, CA – Swedish American Hall ^

• = performing with Julian Lage
  ^ = Margaret Glaspy solo