The songs appear on six-song sample
Big Loud Records/Songs & Daughters firebrand Lauren Watkins returns with two more tunes – “Cowboys on Music Row” with country compatriot Carter Faith and “Stuck In My Ways” – out now.
“Stuck In My Ways” celebrates the comfort in the mundane, a routine-riddled toe-tapper about being stubborn and happy, “stuck” in habits that fit like a glove. “Cowboys on Music Row” is a mournful duet, perfectly balanced by Watkins’ Tennessee limestone gravel and Faith’s light-as-a-feather soprano. Wishing for days of old when outlaws had bona fides and country music was just three chords and the truth, they sing:
“I’m needin’ a red-headed stranger / I miss the real rodeo man / A slow talking, walking lone ranger / Who means it – when he gives a damn // They sang what they knew / And they knew what they sang / I wish I could find one / To whisk me away / Where oh, where oh, where did they go / There ain’t no cowboys on music row.”
Both songs join past releases “The Table” and “Fine County Line,” all of which appear on Watkins’ forthcoming six-song sampler, Introducing: The Heartbreak, out November 17th.
Watkins’ buzzy Nashville residency the Heartbreak Supper Club reached an all-time high earlier this week with a Halloween barn burner for the books. The up-and-comer literally blew the speakers out at Springwater Supper Club, improvising on the fly and hopping up on a table clad in a Cher costume to finish the set acoustic, leading the crowd in a deafening sing-along and delivering an unforgettable good time. Stay tuned for a new, larger venue for Supper Club’s final Nashville show on November 14th, and catch Watkins on tour nationwide opening dates for both Austin Snell and Conner Smith.
