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Dream Me A Dream was completed last year in collaboration with musician Nick Holton (Holton’s Opulent Oog), and was set to be announced in January — the same week that Zimmerman and his wife, Marie-Claire, tragically died in a fire at their Liège home. In line with Zimmerman’s expectation for the record to go out, Big Potato Records have made the decision to release it, with opener “Sun In Scorpio” serving as the first preview of the work.
The album features eleven tracks written by Zimmerman, with the exception of “Stay” written by Adrianne Lenker. Holton played synthesisers, moog, organ, piano, bass, glockenspiel, and percussion, while singer and fiddle player Jackie Oates contributed vocals, violin, organ, piano, with additional vocals provided by Marie-Clarie.
Back in October, Zimmerman wrote about the album and its beginnings, explaining: “The Little Prince by way of the pen of Antoine de Saint Exupéry said ‘Draw me a sheep’ and I said to the the Little Prince ‘Dream me a dream’ overheard by Nick HOO (Big Potato Nick) who said ‘Record me a song’ so I recorded a song and then one or two more and just like that whip crack away and snap dragon fingers we had an album and just like that pump up the jambalaya and kick the chandelier Nick’s got the tracks mixed and mastered and pressed into 12” discs that say hallelujah and great balls of fire on the cover and that’s all I’m going to say about the outer wheels of this wagon as it rolls into your life the inner clockworks too intricate and deep to make language suffer so if you want more go to the Little Prince ask him to draw you a Dream of Now and Memory…”
Recalling his experience of working with Zimmerman, Holton says: “Tucker told me ‘Rose Of Sharon' was about the dark side of the hippie movement in California. Young girls being swept away with various cults. We really flew with this track. Recorded it with both of us on the synths. It edges towards the psychedelic, almost Krautyrock style. Jackie Oates does a wonderful job with her beautiful voice and violin. We recorded this in 2024 and then Tucker re-sung the vocals in 2025 when he was pretty frail. But the energy came through when the tape was rolling! It rocks.
“Tucker and I had long chats during the recording. And we went very deep on occasions focusing on love, fear & the future. He mentioned he'd never recorded a cover version, but that his dear friend Annie (Adrianne Lenker) had written this wonderful song. It's called ’Stay (Wanted You To Stay)’ and this version was for/to his love Marie-Claire.”
Dream Me A Dream artwork
Dream Me A Dream tracklist
"Sun in Scorpio"
"Dream Me a Dream"
"Orion Comes Down To Walk The Land"
"Don’t Feel Like Doing Nothing Today"
"Wolf Run"
"Rose Of Sharon"
"Riding Around In My Dreams"
"Lovers Of Beggar St."
"Rooftops of San Francisco"
"Stay (I want you To Stay)"
"Cross"
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