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a curated collection of new and high quality used rock , reggae , electronic , jazz , blues , and folk LPs from around the world cal education and taught her that the “ Sun Sessions ” -era was equally as crucial as Angus Young , as were other disparate full-length classics filed under punk , rockabilly rhythm and blues , even disco and Top 40 pop . In fact , King is equally thrilled by the recent HBO Bee- Gees documentary as she is by the news that , thanks to the unexpected placement of their four-decade-old chest “ The Goo Goo Muck ” in Netflix ’ s Addams Family spinoff Wednesday , the voodoo rockabilly cult combo The Cramps is suddenly on the Google-search radar again . Add all of these influences up , she adds , including the rafter-rattling gospel she delves into on “ Try Jesus ,” and Voila ! “ That ’ s what country is to me ,” she sighs contentedly . “ And all of these things have helped me make this country record that I am so proud of , and it ’ s just unabashedly , absolutely me . Country has breathed a whole new life into me .”
Of course , King couldn ’ t move forward without looking back . “ Come Get Your Wife ” with the banjo-based childhood reminiscence , “ Ohio ”; co-penned by the King , Hamrick , Langley and McKinney team ; it finds the artist whimsically reflecting on Jackson , Ohio , which “ may not be like Hollywood / But we got nice hills and hey roll real good .. All I need on a Friday night / Is some Coors in the cooler and a few fireflies / And a good ole-fashioned mountain dancing song .” It ’ s all about reclamation , even when the vintage Thomas Mann axion posits that You can never go home again . The music industry in Los Angeles had to urbanize her rural tendencies , she recalls , even when America ’ s Sweetheart had revolved around her favorite instrument , the banjo . The album title itself was inspired by a real-life incident that
revealed the sexism still lurking just beneath the surface of society , post # metoo movement . “ I admit that I run my mouth , especially when I ’ m drinking ,” she harrumphs . In the group she was with , she made a joke that everybody else was making , she adds , which apparently displeased a male member of the entourage , who addressed King ’ s significant other instead of her . “ He actually shouted over me , and I have never had anybody shout over me like that , yelling , ‘ Dude ! Come get your wife !’ And I was like , ‘ Ooh ! Damn ! I ’ m gonna call my record that !’ But yeah , it actually happened . That whole ‘ Uh , the men are taking now shit is still fucking out there .”
But don ’ t mistakenly believe that King has gone totally Elly May Clampett rustic . Although she did recently purchase a retro hi-fi system and a dozen vintage vinyl albums to spin on it , just like when was in high school back in Ohio , she was more thrilled about the wall-sized big-screen TV she ’ d just had installed and the prospect of watching David Leitch ’ s rapid-fire masterpiece Bullet Train one more time , because once is never enough for this ultra-modern thrill ride ( try it and see ). So why did she really move to Nashville ? Easy , she says . “ Because people are fucking happy here ! I was miserable in Hollywood , and I had no idea that you could actually enjoy this as a career ; I had no idea that people listened to you or that my ideas were valid and I needed to stick to them .
“ So country music changed my life . Hell , country music probably saved my life !"
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