Austin songwriter Shelley King talks paying tribute to Levon Helm in her whimsical song “Levon’s New Drum Set”
I was playing in New York City. I had just gone into the city. I had just come out of the Holland Tunnel and heard it on the radio. It was really heavy. I went to my gig and people were saying, “Are you gonna play one for Levon?” I said, “Everything I play will be for Levon!” The next day I went on up to Woodstock and just wanted to at least go ahead and spend my time there that I had booked to spend there, even though there wouldn’t be a Ramble.
Weather is sort of an ongoing theme on the album. What inspired you and Marcia Ball to write “Hurricane Party”? We like to go out walking on the trails here in Austin. I’d been bouncing ideas for this record off of her for a while and getting advice from her. I was out on the trail walking one morning when I got a text from her that said that she was in Florida but she was coming back early because her gig had gotten canceled because of a hurricane that was coming. We like to play dominoes together. We have a whole group of girls that plays dominoes, so she said maybe we can play.
Of all the songs on the album, though, “Heart of a Girl” probably has the most unique story behind it. I wrote that about my parents. They re-met again at one of my gigs. They had been divorced since I was a baby and saw each other at one of my shows and started e-mailing each other and meeting up on weekends. Before I knew it, they were in love. Now, they’ve been remarried for 13 years. It’s pretty amazing. My mom was always this kind of tough, independent “I don’t need anyone, I can do it myself” kind of woman.
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