On Friday, Caldo Verde Records detailed the new Sun Kil Moon album, Among the Leaves, said to be a decidedly impulsive display of Mark Kozelek’s “more raw and humorous side.” Armed with aptly droll song titles like “I Know It’s Pathetic But That Was The Greatest Night Of My Life,” their description sounded about right, but now comes a preview illustrating the point quite well: “Sunshine In Chicago,” a kind of stream-of-consciousness reflection written just before one Windy City gig last year.
Southern Souls shot this live footage from the Shivering Songs Festival this month, at which Kozelek premiered the smirking cut while gloriously drenched in natural reverb via Fredericton, New Brunswick’s 2-century-old Wilmot Church. Watch it after “Heron Blue” at the 5:30 mark above and stay tuned for the self-deprecating jab at his audience becoming mostly “guys with tennis shoes.”