“I’ve been wanting to get that kind of sound on an album, that crunchy thing,” says Williams. “It was pretty obvious after the first track. Hearing it back, it was like, ‘Wow, this sounds amazing.’ There we were, making an album.”
“It’s like Muddy Waters meets the Stooges. It’s a badass record,” says Jesse Malin, whose 2019 album,by Williams and Overby. “There’s a dirt and a nastiness, where they went into a room as a band. She’s another example of people, like Dylan or Nick Cave, who get older and get more real and raw.”finds Williams with her pitchfork out.
“I was just reading something online about different people who have sold their souls to the devil, besides Robert Johnson,” says Williams. “I’ve always been fascinated by that, the devil personified, in the way it comes out in folk art and particularly in Delta blues songs. There is one that I discovered that I loved, a song called ‘Don’t Let the Devil Ride.’ It’s the devil in the form of a hitchhiker. You know how the devil personifies himself and you get lured in? I love all that.
“Maybe part of it is a confidence thing as you get as you get older,” she muses. “But [in the studio], it felt great to do the songs. We felt that way the whole time; we were all feeling it.”
From her ivory goddamn tower, nice photoshoot, she hardly looks a day over Trash
And looks as rough too.