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Karen Jonas Opts for a Nap Instead of the Dishes in New Song “Tuesday”

July 11, 2020 By MovieDebuts

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Karen Jonas Opts for a Nap Instead of the Dishes in New Song "Tuesday"

Karen Jonas has released the first single “Tuesday,”  from her new album The Southwest Sky and Other Dreams. “Tuesday” is a song about day to day responsibilities, jealousy and feeling overwhelmed by it all. 

Karen spoke to DittyTV who premiered the song and video earlier this week saying: “I wrote Tuesday one day when I was feeling overwhelmed by my grown-up responsibilities. Ostensibly, we have these endless opportunities as adults – we could move somewhere fabulous or make a big plan or get a new job. Sometimes it seems like everyone else is having adventures, and I lose track of my own story and feel stuck. Tuesday is about surveying all of this, becoming extremely overwhelmed, and going to take a nap instead. And, as per the chorus, I did have a black widow infestation in my backyard a few years back. They were everywhere. It was like a Discovery Channel Documentary/horror film but scarier.”

Karen Jonas – Tuesday

The record is a flashback-fueled fever dream of Americana songcraft and storytelling. Taking the vast desert expanses of the American Southwest as her backdrop, Jonas embroiders small-town snapshots into vivid explorations of our inner struggle between ambition and inaction. 

The Virginia singer-songwriter’s most accomplished and evocative expression to date, The Southwest Sky and Other Dreams captures that aching space between romantic dream state and numb reality like few before. 

“It’s amazing that our brains are capable of sustaining this whole existence of imagination … of these dreams and goals and ambitions,” mulled Jonas, chatting from her Fredericksburg home. “But sometimes that’s enough. Because sometimes the action isn’t really critical to get you through the day.”

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Drawing from memories of love-struck travels around desert California in a converted Greyhound bus, and scribbled notes taken between tour stops in dusty West Texas, The Southwest Sky and Other Dreams overlays relatable characters and circumstances with the fathomless mystery of the human condition. Astonishingly articulate and atmospheric, it turns the desert’s dichotomous sense of endless space and counterintuitive claustrophobia – both actual and imagined – into a profoundly lucid metaphor that lingers long after its final notes.

“I capture these faint ghosts of stories – some my own; some not,” said Jonas, poetic even in conversation. “Oil derricks peck on forever, little mosquitoes sucking the blood of the Earth … Watching with detachment the infiniteness of the land and the stories that seem to add up to nothing.”

Equally prolific on the road and in the studio, Jonas has toured non-stop since her 2014 debut album Oklahoma Lottery, gathering steady creative and critical momentum through 2016’s Country Songs; 2018’s Butter; and last year’s Lucky, Revisited, which debuted at #13 on the EuroAmericana Chart. 

Sharing stages with the likes of Dale Watson, Alabama, Joe Ely, Bob Schneider, Robert Earl Keen, and Amanda Shires, Jonas’ heartfelt compositions and nuanced timbre have entranced intimate house concerts, rowdy honky-tonks, and outdoor festivals alike. An official showcasing artist at last year’s SXSW, she was also nominated for a 2018 Ameripolitan Award, and recently named ‘Best Country/Americana Artist’ by the Washington Area Music Awards.

On The Southwest Sky and Other Dreams, Jonas gathers 10 vignettes around central themes, their characters connected by throughlines of setting and circumstance. Whereas her previous albums were mostly recorded live, this time Jonas enjoyed the luxury of creating in her home studio with producer EP Jackson.

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“It made a huge difference for us to be able to expand ideas together without watching the clock and, in a practical sense, to sit with the tracks and dig into them for a really long time,” she explained. 

The Southwest Sky and Other Dreams also marked Jonas’ first recording with a settled, solid band, comprising longtime guitarist and musical partner Tim Bray alongside ‘The Seths’ (bassist Seth Morrissey and drummer Seth Brown). The result is her strongest songwriting to date enhanced with cultured, vivacious instrumentation that stays true to each song’s narrative.

“I found that our arrangements were able to express a lot about each character’s mood … A little ‘spaghetti,’ but not too much,” offered Jonas. “I don’t pass a lot of judgment on my characters, and there are questions left about them all. I think that, sonically, we’re able to answer some of those questions.”

Album opener “The Last Cowboy (at the Bowling Alley)” recounts the beer-stained memories of a faded local hero years after all his friends moved on, while “Out In Palm Tree Paradise” recalls Jonas’ entrancement and ultimate disillusion while wandering the Mojave Desert with a beau.

Harnessing her perennial influences – Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon – and a newfound comfort with country music to an innate lyricism has spawned a record that subliminally explores weighty concepts through ostensibly everyday tales.
“I’ve learned to take a lot more time and to be expansive with the songs, as I’m thinking of them,” she said. “And as we take them into the studio, to look for ways that they could grow.”

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The sultry shuffle of “Pink Leather Boots” details a trucker daydreaming at a strip club (“He plans this whole existence for him and this girl, then gets in his truck and drives away”). “Farmer John” is the perpetual emotional sunset of a broken marriage punctuated by a wife’s empty threats. Imploring album standout “Maybe You’d Hear Me Then” paraphrases Jonas’ wonderfully wistful new album in its first verse: “You’re working some nine-to-five/Making plans for some better life/The Southwestern sky and other dreams you’ll never find.”

“I like to pick characters and become obsessed with them: live with them and love with them until I can describe a minute of their life and it can tell you so much about them,” Jonas concluded. “That’s a big part of my vision as a songwriter.”

The Southwest Sky and Other Dreams 

Tracklisting

  • The Last Cowboy (at the Bowling Alley) 
  • Out In Palm Tree Paradise 
  • Tuesday
  • Pink Leather Boots 
  • Maybe You’d Hear Me Then
  • Be Sweet to Me 
  • Farmer John
  • Barely Breathing
  • Better Days
  • Don’t Blink Honey

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