Olaf Koeneman - vocals, guitar, mandoline, organ
Niels Goudswaard - vocals, guitar, harmonica
Herman Gaaff - bass
Bertram Mourits - slide
Léon Geuyen - drums
René van Barneveld - pedalsteel guitar
What a night, what a night
They will be gone
Can’t believe the winner
Really won
Medicine Ball, the first single of the fourth album by The Yearlings (After all the Part Years, release date January 24, 2025), is a song about the night Joe Biden won. It’s about the relief many of us felt, followed by a looming sensation of uncertainty. It’s about the dark thought - clouding the victory - that it actually won’t make much of a difference. That the bear is already out of the cage. It’s about how difficult it is to retain your dignity and sense of normalcy when you’re up against truth-denying madmen. And it’s about the chance that, before you know it, the madmen will have returned. It is not just a song about the United States. It was instigated by the feeling that the American turmoil is a foreboding of what awaits the western world in general. The Dutch government is already infected. These changes will affect our streets, our town, the little world that we have created for ourselves. The video for Medicine Ball was shot in and around our beloved Utrecht, in the dusk and in the rain. It felt appropriate to release this single a fortnight before the Harris-Trump showdown, to side with the plea for normalcy, so to say. May the best woman win.
credits
released October 24, 2024
music and lyrics: Olaf Koeneman
