13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Desert Blonde – It Ain’t Bad To Be Alone

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Just keep telling yourself…It Ain’t Bad To Be Alone. Here’s a new one from Brooklyn’s Desert Blonde, aka Zach Hinkle.

Here’s a new one from Brooklyn’s Desert Blonde, aka Zach Hinkle. For more on this promising young lad, we bring you the record company blurb:

Desert Blonde — the alt-country, indie-rock project of Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Zach Hinkle — has announced the release of a new EP, Live Slow Die Old, out October 23. Along with the EP announcement, Desert Blonde is sharing the first single “It Ain’t Bad (To Be Alone),” an ode and a hat-tip to life’s quiet, peaceful moments, for fans of John Prine and Jeff Tweedy.

Of the song, Hinkle says: I wrote this song before quarantine, during a time when the city felt totally overwhelming. I was able to escape that feeling by going to the park or spending an evening on my couch, and I thought about how nice it was to have some time to myself. It’s for all of the introverts out there. We’re all spending more time alone these days, so for anyone who’s having a hard time with that, maybe they’ll hear it and think things aren’t so bad.

Hinkle’s dry-witted, sincere lyricism and tear-in-your-beer Western soundscapes make the songs on Live Slow Die Old feel as though they’ve always existed, just waiting for someone to come around and pluck them from the dirt. It’s a stripped down record with simplicity as its main ingredient — the perfect soundtrack to accompany evenings on the porch swing.

Live Slow Die Old — out October 23 — is now available to pre-order on Bandcamp.

A musician since his teens, Hinkle was the guitar player in the Atlanta-based art-punk band The Letters Organize, whose record Dead Rhythm Machine was praised by AllMusic as a “…ferocious debut.” Since 2018, Desert Blonde has released three EPs, Far Out, Ancient History, and Connecticut Turnpike Breakdown Blues, along with several singles.

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