Premiere: Lauren Davidson cleanses the pain in the ‘Pouring Rain’

Giving into a broken heart doesn’t make you weak. It makes you human. And it can happen to literally anyone. Heartache is a common thread knitted into the fabric of country music, often textured in great, affecting and bawdy detail. New York City singer-songwriter Lauren Davidson comes clean, so to speak, about her own brush with misery, employing the “Pouring Rain” as a mechanism that eventually washes away the coarse edges, flood of tears and the shell of her former self. Her new single, premiering today, is coated in a metallic sheen, flushed with glossy guitar and booming percussion. But her vocal is firmly planted in the breakup’s ashes.

“Feeling sadly all alone,” she confesses, “in this mixed up, crazy place / Still see the shadows of his face / Now fading, will there be another time when my dreams will all come true / When I fall in love anew?” She flexes her heart muscles as she learns to cope, rendering the pain only as a vessel to greater restoration of self-worth. Later, she distills the central lessons, “I’ve learned life’s not a bed of roses / Yeah, I’ve learned life’s not always fair.”

On the song, which drifts between the cumbersome aftermath and muted hope, she tells B-Sides & Badlands, “I had been spending a lot of time between shows writing but was waiting for a release until something felt right. My fans have really responded to this song each time I played it live at a show. Sometimes, I’m hesitant to play a ballad, but some of my favorite songs are ballads. They’re timeless. Like Elton John said, it’s easy to write a sad song. This song just sort of poured out ⎯⎯ no pun intended…well, pun intended”

“Pouring Rain,” a co-write with her father and musician Danny Davidson and co-produced by Bart Migal (Bjork, Jessica Simpson) and guitarist and musical director Cristian Camilo Castro, follows Davidson’s 2016 debut EP, Hear Me.

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