Old Man Luedecke Returns, Without His Signature Banjo, For New Single, Ft. Bahamas
It’s been a few years since we last heard new music from two-time JUNO Award winner Old Man Luedecke. Where exactly has he been? On a scallop boat of course, and working with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas).
He has shared the first new track from their time together, “My Status Is The Baddest”, which sees Chris Luedecke leaving behind his signature banjo to explore songwriting and finding freedom in it. The track is a joy-filled complaint of parenthood. Channeling Steve Miller and Tom Petty with a breezy existential refrain, Luedecke tries to sort out whether the high road of parenting is espionage against the true nature of the beast.
‘Am I a coward or a traitor? I’m always at war with my nature’ Holding it all back to be a good parent, or trying to be, most of the time. Suppressing flight urges, keeping the train on the rails, and trying to get the kids what they need. All these things are in this feel-good ditty about how the joys and bliss of parenting are also really a lot of work, doubt, and heartache with little right to but also little escape from complaint. Sweet otherworldly guitar lines keep the humour ethereally above the Steve Miller-like candy rock of the melody.