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# Reverberated Crying
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/reverberated-crying/
- Published: 2014-08-03T01:20:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:51:04.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

A dusty ballad plays in a grand old ballroom filled with tailored men and elaborate hairdos. The singer’s baritone drifts from the dashboard of a Cadillac Fleetwood idling in the starlit desert. The rolling drums bleed through the static of an all-night pancake house. These echoes of an old single from 1961 wash over one another until we’re left with nothing but the ghostly outline of a nostalgic age in which we have not lived.

#### Reverberated Crying

###### From [American Decay](http://jamesr323.sg-host.com/american-decay/?ref=jamesreeves.co) | 2015 | [Bandcamp](https://atlasminor.bandcamp.com/album/american-decay?ref=jamesreeves.co)

[http://jamesr323.sg-host.com/radio/Crying%20-%20Big%20American%20Version.mp3](http://jamesr323.sg-host.com/radio/Crying%20-%20Big%20American%20Version.mp3?ref=jamesreeves.co)

Original song performed by [Roy Orbison in 1962](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crying%5F%28Roy%5FOrbison%5Fsong%29?ref=jamesreeves.co). This track appears on *[American Decay](http://jamesr323.sg-host.com/dev/broadcasts/american-decay/?ref=jamesreeves.co)*, a collection of loops and reverberations recorded between 2009 and 2014.