Mexican Summer
Drugdealer - Hiding In Plain Sight
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The
third
and
most
seasoned
Drugdealer
album,
Hiding
In
Plain
Sight,
almost
didn't
happen
at
all.
Frustrated
and
insecure
with
his
own
singing
voice
prior
to
the
pandemic,
Drugdealer
founder
and
primary
songwriter
Michael
Collins
was
nearly
ready
to
throw
in
the
towel.
Due
to
a
frequent
impulse
to
hand
over
the
microphone
to
friends
and
collaborators
like
Weyes
Blood,
Jackson
MacIntosh,
and
his
trusty
musical
companion
Sasha
Winn,
Collins
became
increasingly
unsure
of
himself
as
a
singer.
While
attending
Mexican
Summer's
annual
Marfa
Myths
festival,
a
chance
encounter
with
artist
and
composer
Annette
Peacock
changed
his
outlook.
Collins
says,
"I
was
so
inspired
by
[Annette].
But
similarly
to
all
these
other
vocalists
I'd
worked
with,
I
didn't
feel
like
I
had
it
in
me."
he
recalls.
"I
told
her
my
plight,
then
I
played
her
a
song,
and
she
told
me
I
wasn't
singing
high
enough
for
my
speaking
voice.
When
I
returned
to
LA,
I
started
coming
up
with
new
progressions,
which
I'd
modulate
up
three
half
steps.
It
forced
me
to
find
a
new
way
to
sing."
"Madison,"
is
the
first
song
Collins
wrote
singing
in
this
suggested
range.
His
newfound
confidence
as
a
yarn-spinning
vocalist
in
the
gruff
tenor
tradition
of
Nick
Lowe,
or
even
Van
Morrison,
is
readily
apparent,
with
Conor
"Catfish"
Gallaher's
pedal
steel
adding
a
dusting
of
cosmic
country
to
Collins'
down-hard
love
song.
When
Collins
wrote
the
would-be
AM
Gold
hit,
he
was
summoning
an
imaginary
vision
of
a
love
that
had
eluded
him
in
reality.
Tim
Presley
sings
on
the
second
song,
"Baby,"
and
Collins
had
a
clear
role
in
mind
for
the
California
avant-rock
mainstay.
"I
love
White
Fence
so
much,
but
I
also
wanted
to
hear
Presley
sing
a
song
that
sounded
like
an
early
'60s
sock
hop
band
who
had
never
tried
drugs
in
their
life."
Meanwhile,
Kate
Bollinger
floats
an
effervescent
lead
vocal
over
the
Rhodes-driven
groove
in
“Pictures
of
You.”.
Taking
inspiration
from
a
canon
of
gruff
but
soulful
rock
vocalists
like
Phil
Lynott,
Collins
looks
back
on
his
nocturnal
meanderings
through
LA's
warrens
of
bars
and
clubs
("New
Fascination").
He’s
right
up
front
in
the
mix,
detailing
a
search
for
love
in
all
the
wrong
places.
Tracklisting
1.
Madison
2.
Baby
(ft.
Tim
Presley)
3.
Someone
to
Love
4.
Pictures
of
You
(ft.
Kate
Bollinger)
5.
New
Fascination
6.
Valentine
7.
To
Live
and
Drive
in
LA
8.
Hard
Dreaming
Man
9.
Posse
Cut
(ft.
Bambina,
Sedona,
Sean
Nicholas
Savage)
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