Today Paul Thorn shares his new single “Geraldine & Ricky,” the latest preview from his upcoming album Life Is Just A Vapor (out on February 21 via Thirty Tigers). The release of the single is also accompanied by an eye-catching animated music video, further bringing Geraldine & Ricky's story to life.
Like many tracks on the album, “Geraldine & Ricky” is based on a true story. Geraldine was a traveling evangelist who couldn’t connect with children until she tried ventriloquism. When she spread the lord’s word through Ricky, the dummy, kids were mesmerized, including a 5-year-old Thorn, who requested, and got, a ventriloquist doll for Christmas. “I would get up and tell jokes at church, and I'd take it to school and tell jokes at school,” Thorn says. “I had made up my mind that when I grew up, I was going to be a ventriloquist.”
Over a snaky rhythm enhanced by guest guitarist Luther Dickinson, Thorn fictitiously paints Geraldine as “a toxic opportunist looking for anything that will better her situation.” When she lands a dying old sugar daddy, she dumps Ricky. But karma catches up to Geraldine, while Ricky, thankfully, gets rescued.
