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Sunday, October 24, 2021
“Amazing. Be sure to get more of her in your life,” says folk music authority Folk Radio UK of Jenny Parrott’s “Georgica” single, out today.
“A prayer and call for hope for young
female energy,” song is from upcoming follow-up to Parrott’s “Top 10 of The
Year” (Austin Chronicle) debut. +++
Jenny
Parrott as photographed
by Carrie Jane Fink. Design by Catfish. +++ PLAY, POST & SHARE Jenny Parrott | “Georgica”
[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/JennyParrott-Georgica +++ “American icon Kinky
Friedman has been quoted as saying Jenny
Parrott’s tunes are ‘the best songs I’ve heard since Christ was a cowboy!’ That
statement isn’t going to wear out too soon. There is nothing to not like about Jenny Parrott, be sure to get more of
her in your life. ‘Georgica’ is also
our Song of the Day.” Check
outFolk Radio UK’s premiere
coverage of “Georgica” by Jenny Parrotthere
or listen at the links above. “‘Georgica’ is the name of my hometown
friend's little girl,” Parrott says.
“Her mother – the Grandma – asked me to write a song as a gift to her. We aren’t
especially in touch anymore – I live very far away – but the song has a vibe of
sending warm, maternal, motherly well-wishes through time and space from an
older source to a younger one, with the understanding that there's birth and
death, and hopefully a whole lot of nice stuff in-between. It’s almost like a prayer and call for hope for young
female energy. When I think about this song, I almost feel like I'm up in
space, singing to the planet.” +++ Jenny Parrott The
Fire I Saw (Parking Lot Panic Attack) Nov 12th, 2021
Track Listing: 01. Knockin’ Back Some Cokes (STREAM) 02. My Hero 03. I Thought (STREAM) 04. Say It 05. Georgica (STREAM) 06. Hallelujah 07. July 08. The Fire I Saw (Is There Anyone To Meet Me?) +++ 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. 12th, 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. 12th,
2021, preceded by the singles “I
Thought” and “Georgica”. Jenny Parrott is
available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information. +++ Jenny
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