Corby’s Vincent J. Rigney is back with another slice of life. I covered “Tidal Wave Of Love” earlier this year, and “Sun & Moon” arrived on February 27th from the same home setup in Northamptonshire, again recorded with local and UK collaborators. This one’s rooted in a real story – a couple who met on a school pilgrimage in 1983, briefly crossed paths again in 1999 and 2003, and eventually married in 2008. Rigney has always written close to the bone, and a story like that is exactly the kind of material he’s built for.
This song harmonically sounds like love without a worry in the world, like being on vacation with a new love. Narratively, it’s simply about being intimate with someone and completely consumed with them like destined lovers forever intertwined like the sun & moon – they come into contact once every blue moon, when the stars are aligned, they see each other, when the cosmic fog clears, and there is nothing else in the world that exists for them but them. The folk-blues arrangement keeps things unhurried, giving the story room to breathe, and the production stays warm and unforced throughout.
Vincent’s voice is so warm and full and carries so much emotion in the delivery of the vocal lines. It suits the material perfectly – a love story that took 25 years to land where it was supposed to. With a second album in the works for 2026, “Sun & Moon” is another reminder that Rigney writes best when he’s working from something real.
