Follow My Voice
The opening track of Not Even Happiness, released as a single in December 2016.
Julie Byrne, from Not Even Happiness (2016)
Our upload is labeled as from Rooms with Walls and Windows (2014), but that album's tracklist has no such song; it is track one of Not Even Happiness. It came out as a single on December 14, 2016, and Northern Transmissions ran it as Song of the Day on December 18. Byrne told Stereogum it is very dear to her, a plea for those in pain not to be overtaken by fear, and an expression of faith in complete, unmotivated responsiveness in love. Bandcamp Daily hears a lyrical love-hate relationship with a former home.
At the album release show at Rough Trade NYC in Brooklyn on January 27, 2017, she played it fifth of eight, between "Sleepwalker" and "Morning Dove". It is not in the setlists JamBase lists for Songbyrd in Washington on September 19, 2023 or Union Stage on May 28, 2025. We found no video, chart history, covers or samples.
On stage
- 2017-01-27, Rough Trade NYC, Brooklyn Album release show; fifth of eight songs.
Sources
- Not Even Happiness, Wikipedia
- Julie Byrne on vulnerability, Stereogum (2016-12)
- Julie Byrne at Rough Trade NYC, We All Want Someone to Shout For (2017-02-18)
- Follow My Voice, Northern Transmissions (2016-12-18)