Showing posts with label Minnie Pearl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minnie Pearl. Show all posts
Mar 8, 2024
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memes,
Minnie Pearl,
Satire
Jan 31, 2017
New Blood: Check Out Karly Driftwood
By Robert Dean
Karly Driftwood is onto something interesting. The
singer-songwriter from Middle of Nowhere, Virginia up and moved to Nashville
and is making a serious play for figuring herself out and being weird as fuck
in the process.
While sure, moving to Nashville to pursue a career in
country music isn’t anything new - it’s the layered persona that Karly offers
that sets her apart. Think mortuary school meets working in a strip club meets
competent musician who’s obsessed with craft over façade. That’s a different
mix than the usual fare creeping out of Nashville these days.
She’s released a few songs via Soundcloud (I have no idea
why she keeps deleting them) and they offer a swath of identity signifiers
rather than just some lame songs.
The two tracks currently up are the Mazzy Star-esque Ain’t it Sad
How Things Can Change and the more Unknown
Hinson meets Minnie Pearl The Dead Guy Song.
Both are equally impressive as they show off the 22-year
old’s abilities as a budding writer. Hopefully, we get more peeks into the mind
of the funeral home – the darkness is welcomed in a world as bleak as this one.
What works about Karly is she’s after a darker game and persona
that plays to her strengths. There isn’t enough country that’s got a little
Danzig feel these days, and seeing a woman grab that swagger and vibrato and
turn the inherent darkness into some bleeding heart songs could cause some
serious damage.
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Danzig,
Karly Driftwood,
Mazzy Star,
Minnie Pearl,
New Blood,
Robert Dean,
Unknown Hinson
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