#Folk#Townes Van Zandt#country folk#covers#jose gonzalez#texas#Los Angeles
Jess Williamson offers a wide open ode to her home state with Texas Blue, a new two song cover EP of Townes Van Zandt’s “Loretta” and traditional piece “Texas River Song.” Williamson first heard this pair of poetic masterpieces as a teenager when she first moved to Austin, Texas, and the songs have haunted her since. For Williamson, Loretta was the free spirit she couldn’t be, and her beloved Texas rivers ran deep with heartbreaking memories. With each cover, Williamson reckons with a state, and state of mind, that feels so close but so far away, and breaks a spell that these songs, and Texas’s big, starry skies, have held over her for so long.
