When Richie Havens—who opened Woodstock—covers your song, you know that you’ve made it. That’s what happened to Clarence Greenwood, aka Citizen Cope, who issued The Pull of Niagara Falls in April of last year.
The album was recorded in a studio and an AirBnB that he rented during the pandemic. It’s much quieter than some of Citizen Cope’s other work, and fans will get to experience a quieter setting at the historic Tampa Theater on Saturday when he returns to Tampa Bay for the first time since a weeks-before-COVID show at Jannus Live.
This article appears in Feb 10-16, 2022.
