Sound it Out # 54: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – "Nightwater Girlfriend" (free MP3)
Naming your band after a Russian political leader does not necessarily get you noticed in his home country, but it eventually did for Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. The Boris Yeltsin Foundation has been following the Springfield, MO band's consistently lovely music-making for years, and invited them to visit the motherland as headliners of the Old New Rock Festival in Yekaterinburg, Russia this past January.
Once the band accepted the gig, the U.S. consulate in Yekaterinburg named them cultural ambassadors to Russia for a day. SSLYBY performed at a local high school and answered questions about being an American rock band. There's a forthcoming documentary about this trip called "Discussions with Russians".
Where do you go from there? SSLYBY returned to Missouri in the spring and wrote/recorded a new record in guitarist Will Knauer's parents' attic. It's called Fly By Wire and is full of deliciously earnest pop gems like "Nightwater Girlfriend", which you can download below.
