Street Sounds

Patrick Spencer speaks with Sad Mag about bring­ing music to the peo­ple in Sad Mag Issue 4, launch­ing this Wednes­day, August 4. Check out a sneak peek of this arti­cle by Justin Mah.

I really like old tra­di­tional folk songs: there’s a song called “Red River Valley”—it’s an old bed­time story-type song that’s been around for more than a hun­dred years. I notice when I play that song—and I play it in my own way, kind of upbeat—it doesn’t sound like an old folk song, but at the same time, peo­ple over fifty years old, for instance, will rec­og­nize it and will stop and lis­ten and will say, ‘Hey, I really liked hear­ing that, I haven’t heard that song since my grand­mother used to sing it to me as a child.’

—Patrick Spencer, as told to Justin Mah.

Photo: Jonathan Tag­gart