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“'Cherry' offers a sweet sense of coming up for air after some heavy but fulfilling emotional lifting of the album,” says Binkley, whose previous album 100 Parts of Heart’s title song rose to #4 on the Top 50 Country Charts of the Roots Music Report in 2014. “It’s a love song with hints of a nursery rhyme, a 1950’s-like Brill Building tune, fun and lighthearted pop. Back of mind I guess, I was subconsciously channeling Jimmy Rodgers’ ‘Honeycomb’ or Phil and Don Everly’s ‘Bird Dog’ when I was writing it. I suppose that at some point in their careers, all songwriters pen songs that remind them of when they were teenagers!”
“Stardust Angels Ghosts has a mix of thematic songs, anthemic songs, rockers, Americana, reggae tunes recorded in Jamaica with the late Toots Hibbert (of the legendary Grammy winning band Toots and the Maytals) “…all topped off with ‘Cherry’!” he adds.
Along with the single, Binkley is concurrently releasing a visually compelling, trippy, colorful, and impressionistic video for “Cherry” that brings the song to life with imagery reflective of the spiritual/ethereal tracks and overall “ghost troubadour” passing through narrative of the album. It depicts two abstract spirit figures engaged in a surreal romantic slow dance as colorful pink petals drift around them against a purple-hued background.
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