“Arlo”, the poignant and immersive latest release from Ontario-based folk artist Benjamin Dakota Rogers, eloquently and realistically grapples with the omnipresent change that’s coming for us all, and the instinctual resistance many of us have towards it. Roger’s tenor guitar and distinct voice can adeptly carry the story on their own, but the restrained bass and fiddle add just the right touch to keep a listener hanging on to every word. A full-length album, Paint Horse, will be released on February 17, 2023.
Of the single, Rogers offers, “I remember camping in the woods with my dad. The night sky at my folks’ farm during my childhood was true darkness flecked with stars. I remember feeling like I was in the middle of nowhere even though we were only 20 minutes from the nearest town. In the twenty-something years that have passed since then, those towns feel much closer. It was this past summer I realized that even at 2 in the morning I could see the nearest subdivisions lighting up the clouds bringing their glow ever closer. It makes me feel sad, it makes me think of old times – of family farms lost to progress and what the future will look like.”
