DONOVAN WOODS & AOIFE O’DONOVAN - IOWA (Single)
(2021)
Label : Meant Well

Credits : Co-Produced it, engineered DW’s vocals. Made and played some ornamentations.

Info :

Today, Donovan Woods is sharing the new single “IOWA” which was co-written and performed with Grammy Award winning artist Aoife O’Donovan. Woods says the song is “about the duality of places; the natural beauty, and the people. It’s about dreaming of somewhere you know doesn’t exist. I wrote the first verse thinking about driving through new places on tour and dreaming about what my life would be like if I lived there. I pride myself on my blue-collar raising. I feel like I fit in anywhere. In America, I’m often swiftly reminded that I don’t. I sent the verse to Aoife and explained what I was trying to get at. She sent back a dreamy chorus that did all the things I love about her artistry. It was flowing and phrased in such a lovely way. We did a zoomer and finished the rest of it together.”

Upon hearing the first verse and reading a few of the stories that Woods had sent over, Aoife says “it reminded me so much of missing the open road, touring, and everything associated with that – everything, really. I started to imagine those Great Plains the way I would see them on tour – covered with tall grass and wildlife. The rest of the song just fell into place.”