Few voices echo as deep and authentic as they do in the realm of folk-Americana by Carolee Rainey. Her latest release, “Hard Times in the Heart,” really is a lesson in storytelling with the complex relations that love brings to us. The primary emotion running through the narrative of the song is “longing,” a feeling Rainey taps with nuance and heartache.
“Hard Times in the Heart” emerges as Rainey’s maiden composition, a piteous testimonial to just why art mimics life in rounds.
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Initially written with the prescience of its later reflecting her own personal experiences, this track has grown as a vessel to Rainey’s introspection—a medium through which she navigates the tumultuous waters of a relationship in decline. Rainey approached music somewhat like how a painter approaches his canvas, in the manner she colored vividly with her melodies the emotions of the very melodies she was performing. Her voice, a rich tapestry of sound, bears weight with the thematic longing of the song in a raw, fiery intensity that is as arrestingly beguiling as it is evocative.
With an acoustic guitar strumming like a heartbeat at the very center of the song, a violin comes in to weep with the desolation of lost love, all while Rainey paints a soundscape at once lovely and sorrow-laden – instantly creating a feeling of longing.
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The music video was shot on the emotive East Coast shores, perfectly suiting the storyline of the song. As Rainey stands silhouetted against an overcast sky, personifying this central theme of longing presented in both her lyrics and the visual storytelling to heighten the effect of the song. The fact alone that “Hard Times in the Heart” speaks volumes about the level of skill Rainey had both at songwriting and storytelling, peeling into heartache over love’s It is not quite a track but an experience—speaking eloquently to the universal truth that love is not forever.
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