Los Angeles-based songwriter challenges herself on “Follow
Me” full-length, chronicling break-up with life she once knew.
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Kim Lenz as
photographed by Joseph Cultice
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“Pay Dearly”
is the latest single and video from the new album “Follow Me” by Kim Lenz and
The Jaguars
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Check out
the premiere
of “Pay Dearly” by Kim Lenz and The Jaguars via Black
Book
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“Lenz sings
her rockabilly odes with the sort of randy sass that would have been considered
unladylike in the King’s court.” – People
“Like most of the songs I write, this one came to me
in the night,” Los Angeles-based musician Kim
Lenz says of “Pay Dearly,” the
opening number from her latest album Follow Me. The track recently premiered
via Black Book Magazine, and now the
Joseph Cultice-directed music video
for the song makes its debut
via BLURT. “I woke up with the first
verse fully formed, and after waking up four more times that night, I had ‘Pay Dearly,’ Lenz explains. “It’s a
song about what you will do, what you will give up, what you will ultimately
pay for something taken away from you that you dearly want back.”
Lenz has been cultivating her take on rockabilly since
1998, releasing three albums, and playing hundreds of dates around the
world. Director Cultice is already a famed celebrity
photographer who has shot Lenz
previously, but is helming a music video for her for the first time. “We worked
together on her last two albums,” he explains.
“I was very touched that she wanted me to do her new video. The song is
strong and heartfelt – an instant classic.”
The shoot was completed at Quixote
Studios in Hollywood where Cultice
has previously produced iconic images of everyone from Marilyn Manson to “Dexter”
star Michael C. Hall.
Follow Me
was produced by roots music icon Carl
Sonny Leyland, and recorded by Los
Straitjackets bassist Pete Curry
in a manner that honors the recordings that have come before – on vintage tube
gear to two-inch tape in mono. The
record is a bit of a departure for Lenz
in that its lyrics deal with matters that she has yet to touch on in her songs,
and that are atypical of the genre in general.
Following the release of 2009’s It’s All True, and that album’s
subsequent tour, Lenz suffered a
series of personal setbacks. Discovering
that she was adopted, and that her family had kept it secret all of her life opened
up a flood of terrible memories for Lenz
to sort through and come to terms with. At the same time, she also lost her
friend and bandmate, Nick Curran to
cancer.
“Some people have asked me if this is a break-up
record,” she says of the life events that informed Follow Me. “I guess it is. It’s about the breakup of the
life I had known. I’d always been a fiercely independent woman, but I was
really just trying to protect myself. What I’ve gone through has ultimately
made me stronger, though – real strength.”
Follow Me by Kim Lenz
and The Jaguars is out now via Riley Records. Kim Lenz is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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Kim Lenz and The Jaguars
Follow
Me
(Riley Records – Out Now)
Track Listing:
03. Deejay
04. Tumble and Fall
05. Whiplash
06. Ghost of You
07. Cry Wolf
08. Number One Reason
09. Three-Cornered Heart
10. Shadows on the Old Bayou
11. Right Here With Me
12. Trust No One
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Kim Lenz Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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