Ontario's Odd Marshall just released a new single called "Lucky Dragon" and to celebrate we asked him to tell us about the track. Here is the story:
I stopped writing songs for 10 years until I flipped my truck in a snowstorm. I was fine. But I crawled out the passenger window and, while sitting in the back of a cop car, a song came on the radio and it reminded me... I used to do that. For how much I enjoy playing music now, I can't understand how I gave it up for so long. Lucky Dragon was one of the older songs I had to relearn.
Continuing in the vein of "failure" songs, "Lucky Dragon" was inspired by a rundown Chinese restaurant in Pittsburgh I frequented after cold winter nights out.
I remember paying for a meal with loose change. The stoic lady behind the counter, Cici, never befriended me as much as I tried to learn Chinese. Understandably, she was busy, and I was usually drunk.
Ten years later, I recorded the song in Toronto at Don Kerr's Rooster Studios, with Don on drums. Mike O'Brien on guitar and Jason Haberman on Bass. I find failure so much more of an inspiration. There's nothing to sing about if it all goes according to plan.
Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen and watch for yourself below and learn more here
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