“Things I Should Let You
Know,” the beautiful, haunting
title track of Seth Glier’s forthcoming disc, stays with you — and
piques your curiosity.
“I think I was writing that
when I was getting into a relationship and realizing that things are
getting serious,” he said.
“And it wasn’t so much that I had
to be real in the relationship or with
the other person. The song is more
about just being real and honest with
yourself, and sometimes the relationship brought that out.”
The singer-songwriter started
the track in his Massachusetts
apartment, worked on it while
touring and finished the song on
a San Francisco rooftop.
“I have this little portable recording studio that fits into a
backpack essentially, and I threw
that in the car because we were
touring so much last year,” he said
during a call from his home.
“That was a song that I literally
kind of stitched together in every
state that we played in; sometimes
I was recording vocals, sometimes
I was recording guitar. And it definitely changes the process because
your perspective is so representative of where you are.”
Glier will play songs from “Things
I Should Let You Know” when he
stops at The Ark in Ann Arbor for
an 8 p.m. show Jan. 11. Tickets are
$15. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
His second disc, “The Next
Right Thing,” received a Grammy
nomination for Best Engineered
Album, Non-Classical.
Glier recorded all his vocals
himself, and was assisted by three
engineers to finish the music on
the CD.
“I was watching ‘Family Guy’ at
the time and someone congratulated me on Twitter. I had no idea;
I thought it was just a joke,” he recalled about the nomination news.
“I feel so lucky. I just turned 24
and never in my wildest dreams did
I ever think that a Grammy nomination would be part of my career.”
He’s been earning accolades. USA
Today said his “exquisite tenor echoes
Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel.”
“I’m just trying to be me, and
I’m trying to write what interests
me and hopefully touch people
along the way,” Glier said.
“Things I Should Let You
Know” is slated for release on
MPress Records Jan. 29.
“For me, the ultimate goal
whether I’m making a record
or whether I’m performing live,
I want to leave people completely 100 percent transformed,”
Glier said.
“That’s beyond being entertained; it’s beyond just having
them forget about their life and
problems for a while.
“At the end of their escape,
they can face all the things that
they were afraid to face and just
be fearless.”
