Beautiful Strangers, by Kevin Morby.
This song is quiet and arresting and provokes attention and thought, which seems to be true of most Kevin Morby songs. I think I mentioned the Farewell Transmission cover with Waxahatchee once already — and I’ll need to play that song soon — but that’s where I first heard his name, then his 2020 album dropped in the middle of everything, and it’s a nice solid heartbeat with a lot of questions.
This one is actually a single from 2016? It is. You can tell, because the references to mass shootings and police killings are… dated… and timely as ever.
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Just acoustics and vocals tonight. Listening to the original, it could’ve used a little drum.