Exclusive: Hear Will Stratton’s New Single “Temple Bar”
Points of Origin is set to arrive March 7 via Bella Union and Ruination Records.
Today, California-born, New York-based singer-songwriter Will Stratton has released “Temple Bar,” the second single from his forthcoming album, Points of Origin. The song comes following the record’s lead single, “I Found You,” and continues the momentum Stratton has been building since releasing Rosewood Almanac in 2017. Points of Origin is Stratton’s third LP with Bella Union and first with Ruination, and it will arrive on March 7.
“‘Temple Bar’ is the story of some regulars at a bar in a little town on the periphery of the East Bay, a town which has historically acted as a sort of crossroads between the Bay Area and the Central Valley, sometime in the late ’60’s or early ’70’s,” Stratton says of the new single. “These characters all appear as narrators on other songs on the album, including on the previous single, ‘I Found You.’
“There’s Charlie, the pool shark-turned-trucker with a rough childhood; Roger, the student radical who flees to the wilderness; Lena, the painter who becomes a real estate agent; and Leonard, the one who stuck around. I tried to make the supporting instruments in this song (fiddle, pedal steel, saxophone, electric guitar) rub shoulders with one another in a way that is complementary to these adjoining stories.”
Listen to “Temple Bar” below.