While Fitzsimmons’ second album, Goodnight, explored issues surrounding his parents’ divorce, The Sparrow and the Crow frames Fitzsimmons’ own struggles with a brutal simplicity and a wistful sense of loss that touches even the most lilting, TV-soundtrack-ready tracks. And from the slow-building “If You Would Come Back Home” to the gentle “You Still Hurt Me” and “They’ll Never Take the Good Years,” Fitzsimmons details every frustrating tear of someone who has loved, lost and can’t do anything to make things right.
“I want people to have a little bit of caution about themselves and about relationships,” said Fitzsimmons. “I want them to take it a little more seriously than I did at the beginning. I want to put a little fear into people with the music. To say, this is how things can go wrong.” MORE
You know me too well…love this album. have you seen him live yet? How someone can be haunting and hilarious at the same time remains a mystery to me.