“Song of the Mournful Millionaire”, Fiver

This way: Song of the Mournful Millionaire

Words by Joe Wallace from the poem Song of the Mournful Millionaire written in 1950. Music written, performed and produced by Simone Schmidt. Recorded by Gavin Gardiner. Also in the fantastic band One Hundred Dollars.

In the late 2000s, Schmidt emerged as the unmistakable voice leading bands like alt-country act One Hundred Dollars, psychedelic caravan The Highest Order, and their solo project Fiver. Many listeners were introduced to Schmidt’s songs for the first time when U.S. Girls covered “Rage of Plastics” on their breakout release, In A Poem Unlimited. Yet after working on Fiver’s densely researched 2017 album, Audible Songs From Rockwood, a collection of fictional field recordings gathered from case files of patients at the Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane between 1854-1881, Schmidt was ready to try a new form of expression. 

[Spotify] Song of the Mournful Millionaire