{"id":806711,"date":"2020-04-23T07:26:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=988240"},"modified":"2020-04-23T07:26:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:26:55","slug":"henry-jamison-teams-with-grizzly-bears-ed-droste-for-swooning-new-song-green-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/henry-jamison-teams-with-grizzly-bears-ed-droste-for-swooning-new-song-green-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Jamison Teams With Grizzly Bear\u2019s Ed Droste for Swooning New Song \u2018Green Room\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/EdHenry.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Vermont singer-songwriter Henry Jamison has teamed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/grizzly-bear\/\" id=\"auto-tag_grizzly-bear\" data-tag=\"grizzly-bear\">Grizzly Bear<\/a>\u2019s Ed Droste for a new song, \u201cGreen Room.\u201d The track will appear on Jamison\u2019s upcoming <i>Tourism<\/i> EP, out May 15th via Color Study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cGreen Room\u201d boasts a wistful folk-rock sway and finds Jamison recounting a moment of existential woe in the titular backstage area before a concert. With Droste providing back-up vocals, the pair sing together, \u201cAnd the monster here, he\u2019s only half of me\/ Alligator tears in my cup of tea\/And the rain falls now through the hemlock tree\/There\u2019s a ghost in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a statement, Jamison spoke about the origins of the \u201cgreen room,\u201d noting it earned its name in part because of \u201chow nervous people get before playing,\u201d and also because \u201cGreek actors dedicated their performances to Dionysus, god of Greenery.\u201d For Jamison, the space has been both a sublime and scary one, and he recalled the moment that inspired his song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe song is specifically about being in L.A. and seeing the movie <i>Spirited Away<\/i> come on the TV while I half-slept on the green room couch,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was my then-ex-girlfriend\u2019s favorite movie and brought on a flood of memories. It also features a very compelling character called \u2018No-Face,\u2019 a being who is so spiritually empty that it needs to devour everything in its sight, a mythical \u2018hungry ghost.\u2019 Being in L.A., home to many would-be stars, I was forced to ask if I was a hungry ghost myself, as my career had taken me away from so many things I missed so badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As for working with Droste on the song, Jamison said: \u201cGrizzly Bear has been my favorite band for about 10 years, so I was extremely happy about it. And it\u2019s the first song I\u2019ve had with long melodic lines, which fits his slightly operatic style especially well. My favorite part of the song is when he sings \u2018monster.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Droste is one of five vocalists that will appear alongside Jamison on the <i>Tourism <\/i>EP. The others are Fenne Lily, Darlingside, Joseph and Lady Lamb.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/henry-jamison-ed-droste-new-song-green-room-988240\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont singer-songwriter Henry Jamison has teamed with Grizzly Bear\u2019s Ed Droste for a new song, \u201cGreen Room.\u201d The track will appear on Jamison\u2019s upcoming Tourism EP, out May 15th via Color Study. \u201cGreen Room\u201d boasts a wistful folk-rock sway and finds Jamison recounting a moment of existential woe in the titular backstage area before a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 06:05:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}