Dreaming of you, Tulsa, by Jeffrey Rothman

Dreaming of you, Tulsa

by Jeffrey Rothman

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1.	Edelweiss (or, A Hardcore Lullaby on the Southside, circa 1995) 01:38	buy track
2.	Honey Suckles (or, A Hardcore Recess at Temple Israel, circa 1997) 03:42	buy track
3.	Paloma (or, Day Trip to Turkey Mt. Pt. 1, circa 2005) 03:58	buy track
4.	Punchline (or, Day Trip to Turkey Mt. Pt. 2, circa 2006) 03:09	buy track
5.	Tucker’s Pool (or, Adventures in High School Social Climbing, circa 2007) 04:10	buy track
6.	Veins Pump in Silence (or, An Existential Freakout at the Tulsa Zoo, circa 2008) 05:00	buy track
7.	When the Clouds Move Fast Above the City (or, Adventures in My Lucky Suede Jacket, purchased circa 2009) 02:53	buy track
8.	The Spirit of the Beehive (or, Causal Chill Sesh with the Bros at Maple Park, circa 2009) 05:30	buy track
9.	Armadillo Bones (or, Dreaming of Her, circa 2007-2010). 03:41	buy track
10.	Milk the Dream (or, A Humbling at the Local Quickie Mart, circa 2010) 03:57	buy track
11.	Cumulus (or, Scott Tosses me the D. [aka the Disk/aka the Frisbee] at Woodward Park, circa 2011) 04:06	buy track
12.	The Dove and the Child (or, A Snow Storm Stroll on Harwelden Hill, circa 2012) 04:30	buy track
13.	Eyeless in Tulsa (or, a Bewildering Memory Swirl on the Eve of the Portland Exile, circa 2015) 05:58	buy track
14.	It's Hard to Say Goodbye 04:18	buy track

about

Dreaming of you, Tulsa is an exploration of memory and how it relates to feelings, thoughts, and intuitions. Each song on this album represents a different memory of Tulsa, and what I felt during that period of my life. As you listen to the album, I get older. So it's a coming of age album of sorts, composed in the form of an unfolding diary. Most songs reference an actual location in Tulsa where I had some sort of meaningful experience. For example two songs reference Turkey Mountain, a walking trail in south Tulsa. To an outsider, Turkey Mt. is merely a boring generic trail like any other. To me, however, it is endowed with the significance of Mt. Sinai or Mt. Vesuvius, because of how it is connected to my personal memories. Woodward Park is my Paris, Utica Square is my Rome, Harweldon is my Eden, etc. So it is with each place mentioned here, for the places we have our deepest life experiences become embedded upon our souls as a unique mythology that endows them with energy and meaning for as long as we live. The theme of the album was heavily inspired by the work of Marcel Proust, who the album is dedicated to, and who I discovered in the Tulsa library in 2009 by the grace of God.

credits

released November 13, 2023

Joel Wade - Producer
Nathan Wright - Guitar, piano, various compositions, production
Jordan Hehl - Bass
Jake Lynn - Drums
Tay Berghoff - Background Vocals
Matt Magerkurth - Cello
Joel Wade - Producer

Album was produced and recorded at Blue House Media in Tulsa, OK

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about

Jeffrey Rothman Tulsa, Oklahoma

Jeffrey Rothman is an artist, musician, social worker, and writer based in Tulsa, OK. His music primarily explores themes of memory, spirituality, and creativity.