The house where you lived when you were a kid: Do you still live there? Does anyone in your family still live there? Is the house still standing? Last year, my wife's parents sold the house that the family inhabited for decades, and the person who bought it demolished the building and put a McMansion there. It was pretty sad! It would be sadder still if rising floodwaters were to absolutely wipe that piece of land off the map. That's what the new Jess Kerber single is about.
The singer-songwriter Jess Kerber is based in Nashville now, and she has lived in a few other places. But she grew up on Louisiana's Gulf Coast, a place that global warming is reshaping right this minute. Next month, Kerber will release The World Is Dark, But I Want It To Be Funny, the new album that she and partner Will Orchard recorded in their home studio. We've already posted lead single "Changing." Yesterday, Kerber shared "Louisiana Song," a tender ballad about preemptively mourning the place that she once called home. Here's what she says about it:
This song is about my home state and growing up in a place that feels pretty far away from everything else. Louisiana carries so much unique beauty, but also has a tinge of tragedy that's forever built in. The state loses a lot of coast line each day, so in 50 years, 100 years, it will look different than it does today; it changes every hour. And the feeling of knowing that you won't be able to return to the thing that you came from is certainly a strange one.
Listen below.
The World Is Dark, But I Want It To Be Funny is out 11/6 on Felte.
