"Those songs bring up emotional moments in my life, and you do ponder all of the changes that have happened since the songs came out. And it's very special to me," Mercer said. "I realize that people are coming out to hear a record that is very special to them. It's hard for him to shake the profound worry he felt at the time. Performing the songs that were written when The Shins were a desperation dream has forced Mercer to survey his life and legacy. It's brought out old friends from the woodwork, who were around me back then." "Nostalgia kind of bites me sometimes, especially lately," Mercer said during a phone call before the band's recent show in Atlanta, its first after a 10-day break. Mercer and The Shins are slated to perform at Philadelphia's Franklin Music Hall this Friday, one of 40 stops on an anniversary tour that salutes the 21st birthday of their magical first album. Overbrook street renamed to celebrate hip-hop radio pioneer Lady B.William 'Poogie' Hart, whose Delfonics shaped the Philadelphia sound, dies at 77.
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Godspeed are the bakers at dawn, James Mercer sang on The Shins' breakout single, "New Slang," from the band's revered 2001 debut, "Oh, Inverted World."Īt 51 years old, the indie rock elder statesman, husband and father of three girls is living "the good life" that he feared he was doomed never to find.
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