friday musical discovery – elle king
So, traditionally (if not so much lately), Friday has been “random ten” day around these parts, where I run a playlist of ten tunes at random off of the record collection/mp3 player/streaming app/whatever I have around and occasionally comment on them.
Not doing that today, though I will toss out this week’s interesting musical discovery. I was listening to wnrn in the car the other day, as I’m wont to do, and heard a song that grabbed me; not sure why it grabbed me exactly, but it did. Of course, I missed the artist and the title, but as the station posts it’s programming on it’s main page, so I was able to identify the offender as this tune:
Elle King – “Ex’s and Ohs”, from the record Love Stuff. Never heard of her before (though apparently she’s been kicking around on the edges of my musical experience for a while), but an amazon music search and $6.99 later, I’d downloaded the record and loaded it on the USB stick in the car, and have been giving it a listen this week. I like it. it’s bluesy, modern, interesting, and full of banjos used in clever, non-intuitive ways that tickle my instrumentalist’s fancy. The above tune is great, but I’ve been really digging “America’s Sweetheart” and “Kocaine Karolina” as deeper cuts.
Today, I finally looked her up to get some context – turns out she’s the daughter of “comedian” Rob Schneider. Weird. Still grooving on the record (assuming that’s a thing a 40 year old white guy can actually do). Consider this one recommended.
