“I swore I'd cut out people with violence in their repertoire,” explains Jenny Parrott of her beautiful, brave new single “I Thought,” out today.

Parrott’s latest album “The Fire I Saw” (out Nov. 12^th) follows-up her debut “When I Come Down,” named an Austin Chronicle “Top 10 of 2017.”
 
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Jenny Parrott as photographed by Carrie Jane Fink. Design by Catfish.
 
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Jenny Parrott | “I Thought”
 

 

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“These arms can’t stand an ever lovin’ man / These eyes can’t see a never changin’ me”
 
The lyrics are taken from “I Thought,” the first single from Jenny Parrott’s upcoming album The Fire I Saw. Check out the premiere coverage at Americana Highways and Americana UK.
 
“It was written as a response to an abusive relationship at a time in my life where I swore I’d cut out people with violence in their repertoire,” Parrott says. “It’s about when your first instincts to love, to cherish, and to give your all, later turn out to be incorrect.”
 
 She continues, “The fearful realization that maybe you just ‘loved’ that way with such intensity because you’re repeating some old, broken pattern of childhood violence.
 
“I grew up with a violent childhood and am a trauma survivor. While I have healed a lot, and have a big capacity for love, I still sometimes make the wrong choices and love people who are abusive. I suspect that as I age, my radar will get sharper and sharper, but I still make mistakes.”
 
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Jenny Parrott
The Fire I Saw
(Parking Lot Panic Attack)
Nov 12^th, 2021
  

 
Track Listing:
 
01. Knockin’ Back Some Cokes (STREAM)
02. My Hero
03. I Thought (STREAM)
04. Say It
05. Georgica
06. Hallelujah
07. July
08. The Fire I Saw (Is There Anyone To Meet Me?)
 
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Jenny Parrott | About
 

 
Jenny Parrott’s 2017 solo debut When I Come Down was named one of the Austin Chronicle’s Top 10 albums of that year. Her follow-up full-length The Fire I Saw arrives on Nov. 12^th, 2021.
 
The new album is, naturally, an evolution of Parrott’s seemingly effortless lyricism, humor mixed with despair, and ultimately, her economic use of unforgettable melodies and just-right instrumentation that makes you feel like she’s seeing you even more than she’s seeing herself.
 
“These arms can’t stand an ever loving man. And these eyes can’t see a never changing me.”

The opening lines of first single “I Thought” stop you dead in your tracks. A perfect example of what Parrott does over the course of an album that doesn’t even clock in past 25 minutes and doesn’t need to. Parrott takes care of all business during the brief span of the eight songs on The Fire I Saw, in a way many songwriters work an entire career towards and never reach.
 
The album was originally going to be a more standard-length release, but the pandemic changed up Parrott’s plans.
 
“I had to give the album a makeover because I was planning on having all my buds come over and finish it in the home studio. Most of my friends in Austin are rootsy-type players, so it would have had that feel. But I was stuck at home in a damp cul-de-sac, and I was scared of the virus, and didn’t want anyone in my space,” she explains.
 
Teaching herself Logic, and putting her Roland Juno into overdrive, Parrott spent time testing and tweaking her favorite synth patches until she had whittled the album down to the “eight that I felt were okay.”
 
Some may say, the eight are more than “okay.”
 
American icon, Kinky Friedman has been quoted as saying Parrott’s tunes are “the best songs I’ve heard since Christ was a cowboy!,” which, it can be argued, is a more interesting string of words than anything Kinky could have actually been talking about, but we get the idea!
 
Parrott has played prisons, a Black Panther reunion party, children’s shows, on streets all over the world, and in every basement from here to New York. She has opened for Jonathan Richman, Pokey LaFarge, and Delbert McClinton. These aren’t mere credits, they are experiences that you should rightfully expect inform Parrott’s songs.
 
And not all of the experiences need to be so flashy. Mundane works just fine, too.
 
Parrott describes the album track “July” as being “written while taking out the garbage in Macon, Georgia” and opener “Knockin’ Back Some Cokes” as “a play on how Sam Cooke is always singing about Coke and popcorn and cake and ice cream,” although she goes on to rightly remark that her take contains “sinister lyrics about facing down climate change and the apocalypse.”
 
Similarly stark is the previously mentioned, “I Thought,” which, while taking Parrott’s stock of her ability to love and be loved, was “written as a response to an abusive relationship at a time in my life where I swore I’d cut out people with violence in their repertoire.”
 
“A lot of the songs are about life, death, and faith,” she says. “Like, having enough faith to wonder about your child’s future in ‘Georgica,’” she explains, referring to another of the album’s upcoming singles, which was written for a hometown friend that Parrott used to sing with.
 
“I am trying to be myself with the songs and performances, instead of putting out a record with the right number of happy-sounding songs on it,” she says. “You don’t have to use a dude’s guitar part to spare his feelings! That will only dim the fire within you that you saw, and you’ve got to feed it.”
 
The Fire I Saw, the second solo album by Jenny Parrott, arrives on Nov. 12^th, 2021, preceded by the singles “I Thought” (Out Now) and “Georgica” (Oct. 21).

Jenny Parrott is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
 
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