Taste Test: Lauren Pratt regales tale of family ties with new entry, ‘Twenty-five’
The smokey Americana storyteller stages a dark, grand tale of blood ties on a new song.
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The belly of the Appalachians growls with a hunger not easily quenched. Nestled among sparkling emerald hills, topped with working families just trying to scrape by, there are stories and inheritances that are as old as time itself. A thick, angelic alto, Americana singer-songwriter Lauren Pratt steps into the shoes of narrator for a bluesy and dark front-porch pickin’ tune called “Twenty-five,” which gathers together two contrasting storylines for a tale indebted to the countryside itself. “I’ve tried my hand / And running corn-mashed through that old Promised Land / With blood on my name like the copper veins of the mountainside,” the words sprout from her pen. Her voice notches each syllable as a rivet driven into steel and the earth’s outer rim. It’s the kind of outstanding performance, akin to Gretchen Peters, that ferments a long-standing legacy.
“Twenty-five” samples Pratt’s new album, Young American Sycamore, out everywhere September 13.
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