Top Shelf

Album: The Lost Mystique Of Being In The Know (2021)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Top Shelf" is a deeply personal song on an album that was generally marked by the social conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, civil unrest associated with police violence, and deeply divisive political perspectives. The period gave the band a lot of time to consider their musical and spiritual direction. Always associated with political activism both in the US and abroad, they took the events to heart. Their ninth studio album, The Lost Mystique Of Being In The Know, rose out of those tumultuous energies, but "Top Shelf" is actually a good old-fashioned lost-love song.
  • Shortly before the release of The Lost Mystique Of Being In The Know, Songfacts asked Rising Appalachia co-frontwoman (with sister Leah Song) what this song was about. She answered, "New Orleans love lost and the momentum you gain after heartbreak. It's a bit of jest in putting someone on a pedestal without seeing the real depth of who they are."

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