Folk Singer-Songwriter Dan Pallotta Releases Lush and Hopeful New Single, “Kendra’s Pictures”

Folk singer-songwriter Dan Pallotta has a delicate and hopeful new single to share entitled “Kendra’s Pictures.” The Kendra in question was a neighbour of Pallotta’s who “took the most beautiful landscape and nature photographs that were filled with light.”

The song features a gently rolling melody which seeks to transmit a feeling of light and of beauty that transcends mortality. Pallotta took many approaches to the song’s production, experimenting with synthesizers, piano, and upright bass.

After trying out many renditions of the song that didn’t quite fit, it was Marc Muller’s lap steel guitar playing that gave “Kendra’s Pictures” its dreamlike quality. “It was big without suffocating the negative space we needed for the lyrics to come through,” explains Pallotta. “It gave the song an other-worldly feeling that the story was calling for.”

Pallotta’s favourite lyrics from this song are taken from a rare phenomenon he witnessed after Kendra’s passing: “It’s a funny little thing, lilacs are supposed to come in spring, but here it’s mid-November. There’s pretty little blooms two seasons too soon saying maybe she ain’t really gone.”

“Kendra’s house has gorgeous lilacs in front of it that bloom in early May. I walk by them every morning and stop to take in the clean, beautiful fragrance. And the rest of the year I wait for them to bloom again. But after she died, they began to bloom in November, in the frost! It was very supernatural. That just NEVER happens.”