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Born in Abington, Pennsylvania, singer-songwriter ZZ Ward grew up in the small town of Roseburg, Oregon, on 23 acres of farmland. Weaned on her dad’s record collection which included titles by Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert...
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"So much of the stuff I’ve done or was lucky enough to do, I was too young or drunk or too stupid to be properly grateful. I’m 43 and sober now. So this time around, I love the truck stops and the shitty motels."
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"[New York] had this brief, interesting moment during the pandemic when people started coming back because the rent had gotten cheaper, and there was this arts energy when the city started coming back. Since then, it’s over, an...
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"I’m currently developing this as a theatrical piece, and that is how it will tour. It’s a cross between this play called What the Constitution Means to Me and [the concert film] Stop Making Sense, whatever that ends up looking...
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"My dad would drag us onto the street to play Christmas carols. We had a bit of a jam band. It was my brother on percussion things and my dad on guitar and singing and I would play violin and mandolin. At the time, I hated it. ...
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"We had this shared sense of loss. That’s a good place for inspiration, and that helped perpetuate quite a few of the songs on the record. We wanted it to be not in terms of something scary but just stories of grief and songs a...
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"I have a tendency in my lyrics to write about things in my life almost like I’m trying to manifest them in some way. I often joke that I’m a psychic or powerful witch."
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"I grew up listening to Bonnie Raitt and Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon. I wanted to reflect that a little more, so I started writing songs that were trying to be like them. I’m sure the first 100 of them sucked, but it definitel...