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“Look at Miss Ohio” is a song that’s been with me from the beginning. In my early 20s, as I was just beginning to delve into performance beyond the violin, it was the first song I ever sang in front of anyone.
I feel at home in it. Like it’s a warm, worn safety whose halls I’ve walked many times before. Maybe it’s the range of the melody and the directness of Gillian Welch’s tone. Maybe it's the way the song feels instantly and beautifully familiar. Maybe it’s the clear call admitting what I think I felt at that time — “I want to do right, but not right now.” I can so clearly see the main character in this song, road-tripping, running around, “living out this fantasy” while the threads of a conventional life pull at her. That resonated with me then, a young woman, living as a musician, piecing together a living. It resonates with me still. She’s clinging to this declaration of doing things in her own time, despite all expectations, and her plain defiance has stuck with me.
I hear this song in conversation with my previous release, a cover of “Wicked Game,” originally by Chris Isaak. Though Miss Ohio hears the call of another transfixed by her, crying out over an unrequited spark, she holds true to herself, her wanderlust, and her independence, steady in her refrain, “not right now.” It leaves her lips easily. I think I always hope to feel that free.
credits
released January 17, 2024
Aisha Burns: vocals, electric guitar
Jake Woodruff: electric guitar
Ricardo Lagomasino: drums
Lindsey Verrill: electric bass
J.R. Bohannon: pedal steel
Engineered by Aisha Burns, Ricardo Lagomasino, Lindsey Verrill, and J.R. Bohannon.
Mixed by Jonathan Low.
Photography by Steph Larsen.
Layout by Bethany Bauman.
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