Long Line

from Cherry Orchard by Ian Fisher

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    This album is a collection of songs inspired by Anton Chekhov’s play “Cherry Orchard”, which Ian Fisher is currently performing in at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, Austria. Like Chekhov’s writing itself, the record’s sound is beautifully bare and direct with nothing to hide behind. Just a voice and guitars. Feverishly recorded in one night, it’s urgency and ease give it life. These are nine dark songs taken refreshingly lightly, six of which were written specifically for the theater piece and three are reworked versions of songs that appeared on Fisher's last release, "Idle Hands”. The Austrian newspaper, Der Standard, describes them as “Melancholy songs of pain that yet somehow beautifully woe the cheerful [characters of the “Cherry Orchard”] and provide the solid ground that they so desperately need.” The album is currently available on Fisher’s website (ianfishersongs.com), Bandcamp, and at the Theater in der Josefstadt, where he will be performing in the “Kirschgarten” for the rest of the season.

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"if Lopakhin’s father could see him now"

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if only our fathers could see us now
looking up from their place in hell
the way their shadows are blinding still
the dead men’s shoes we are forced to fill

in a long line in a long line
that I was taught to trace
in a long line in a long line
that I can not erase

if only our mothers had listened then
to what their children were teaching them
then all of this would be but a dream
and not this suffering that we repeat

but don’t we all lie
don’t we all try
to be better than we are
don’t we all break
don’t we all scar

in a long line in a long line
running from my door
in a long line in a long line
that I’ve been down before

in a long line in a long line
running through my veins
in a long line in a long line
that I have tried to change

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from Cherry Orchard, released December 5, 2019

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Ian Fisher Vienna, Austria

A modern songwriter born in rural America and living in Europe, making what Rolling Stone calls "Half Americana & Half Abbey Road-Worthy Pop".

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