Brooklyn Americana trio Tanbark today premieres the deceptively merry song “Jenny” (streaming below) off their forthcoming album, ‘Write Soon.’ A near mythic story of small-town desperation, the freewheeling, guitar-winded track lucidly updates the tragic legend of Guinevere and Lancelot. As frontwoman Chloe Nelson revealed via e-mail, “I was reading T.H. White’s version of the two, not particularly romantic or handsome, but rather ugly and painful. Country music is all about heartbreak, so it seems a propos to tell of a classically doomed love." In the vein of Terrence Malick’s classic film Badlands or the deeply poignant songs off Bruce Springsteen’s masterful ‘Nebraska’ LP, Tanbark’s “Jenny” is sad but oh-so-alive. Tanbark will have an album release show for ‘Write Soon’ on Thursday 8.20 at Greenpoint’s Manhattan Inn. Full details for the event can be found at its Facebook page.– Zach Weg
