Kevin Morby (kevinmorby) and Hamilton Leithauser (HLeithauser) team up for a new track, 'Virginia Beach.' Listen:
, and Leithauser’s 2020 albumCo-written by the duo, and produced and mixed by Leithauser, “Virginia Beach” is part Bob Dylan, part The Band, and all Americana. Fingerpicked acoustic guitar is the tip of the song’s spear, but Morby and Leithauser incorporate elements as disparate as they are, from a jammy lead guitar and country two-step bass line to horns, keys and eerie backing vocals.
“I wanted to do a modern take on a dark country song which would transform into more of a dark dance groove,” Leithauser explains in a statement. “I also wrote an entire vocal track over it but just didn’t think my voice was taking it anywhere new, so I sent the track to Kevin Morby. His voice sounds nothing like my own, and his songs usually have a very different structure than mine. I thought maybe he could take it in a new direction.
“He told me he wanted to write a traveling song, maybe mentioning some places people don’t sing about that much, and he sent me some lyrics. I loved it and wrote my ‘Virginia Beach’ lines right then and there, and sent them back to him.” Morby recalls, “Maybe it was being in one place for almost two years, or maybe it was the mysterious and kinetic energy of the composition, but I found myself compelled to write of all the bizarre yet beautiful corners of America one often overlooks that a touring musician inevitably finds themselves in while out on the road. The Paris Idahos and the Texarkanas.
“It was my attempt at evoking Cash and Dylan’s ‘Wanted Man’ or Barbara Keith’s ‘Detroit or Buffalo,’ or any of those other lost country and rock ‘n’ roll songs that shout out cities off the beaten path. Cities that down-and-out characters race towards in an attempt to outrun themselves. Though, of course—as the saying goes, no matter where you go, there you are.”” and revisit Leithauser’s 2016 Daytrotter session below. You’ll find Morby and Leithauser’s tour dates further down.
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