San Francisco Soundtracks–Check Out Stephanie Finch and the Company Men
We haven’t been able to get back to our beloved San Francisco since deep, sunny winter. So we had to pull up the official videos for two phenomenal pop songs by Stephanie Finch and the Company Men (Chuck Prophet, Kelly Stoltz and Rusty Miller). Ms. Finch is the very talented spouse of the sorta-talented Chuck Prophet (jk, Chuck) who has also collaborated with Jonathan Richman and Mark Kozalek. If you haven’t had the pleasure, Finch has crafted pop songs of the highest order. There’s nothing new under the fog, but these songs still wrap you up in pop velvet.
The two featured songs (Transmission and Don’t Back Out Now) are off of her underrated, under-appreciated 2010 album Cry Tomorrow, her consummate compendium of “love letters to classic song.” The videos for these fine songs feature multiple facets of San Francisco and together function as a veritable travelogue of that fine City. On the recently released video for Transmission, Finch hints at Neko Case and busks at BART, while on Don’t Back Out Now Finch and the fellas goof off all over the fabled village. Check ’em out below, and go buy Cry Tomorrow at the link above.
For those attending October’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Chuck Prophet and Stephanie (as a member of Prophet’s backing band Mission Express) will appear as a part of this year’s vaunted lineup. San Francisco, we’re comin’ for you soon.