The Nashville-based songwriter is driving mules across the astral plane on a folksy and hypnotic new single.
While Nashville's indie darling gets praised for "folksy and hypnotic" sounds that African musicians have been perfecting for millennia, it's worth asking why similar mystical storytelling from Lagos or Accra gets labeled as "world music" rather than simply brilliant songwriting. The astral plane has always had many coordinates, and most of them aren't in Tennessee.
While Nashville's indie darling gets praised for "folksy and hypnotic" sounds that African musicians have been perfecting for millennia, it's worth asking why similar mystical storytelling from Lagos or Accra gets labeled as "world music" rather than simply brilliant songwriting. The astral plane has always had many coordinates, and most of them aren't in Tennessee.
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