Taste Test: TK & the Holy Know-Nothings cherish the sweet-scented ‘Desert Rose’
The Americana troupe learn from past mistakes on their new honky tonk number.
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Love comes in many forms, and it’s not something you can easily pin-down or contain. It’s a bedeviling creature, and if you try to wrangle it, you might be in for a world of hurtin’. Taylor Kingman, frontman of Americana outfit TK & the Holy Know-Nothings, put his hand in the fire far too many times, and he’s got the scars to show for it. “Desert Rose,” a smoldering two-stepper, finds himself regaling such a tale and determining that “love is not a possession,” as he puts it. “I found heaven / And then I bottled it,” he gargles down his faults like bitter cough syrup. The production spins as a glass bottle on splintered hardwood, twirling and twirling until it lands squarely on a future free from such wayward thinking. “Love is home / But it ain’t moving in / If I ever knew loving . It was blowing in the wind,” he also sings. In his contemplation, he comes across the alarming nature of his former self, and so, he sheds it like a python for a new, enlightened and perhaps more compassionate skin.
“Desert Rose” samples the band’s debut album, Arguably OK, out May 24 on Mama Bird.
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