Tucker Zimmerman lets Dream Me a Dream become a final room of light

Tucker Zimmerman’s Dream Me a Dream arrives on 19 June via Big Potato with a sadness around it that is impossible to ignore. The album was completed before Zimmerman and his wife Marie-Claire died in a fire at their Liège home, turning what would already have been a late-career folk statement into something much heavier. Yet the title does not sound defeated. Dream Me a Dream suggests tenderness, continuation and the old folk idea that songs can keep walking after the singer is gone. Zimmerman’s work has always existed a little outside the main highway, admired by deep listeners and fellow artists who understood the value of patience. This final record now carries the weight of farewell, but also the generosity of a last open door. Some albums arrive as products. This one arrives like a candle someone left burning.

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