Ruston Kelly - Mockingbird

"Mockingbird" from the new Ruston Kelly album Dying Star. Of the song and video, Kelly shares, “I wrote ‘Mockingbird’ in a Dominican hotel, on the edge of a bed, at like six in the morning. I needed a release from a cyclical pattern of a doomed relationship. The kind that leaves you with less than what you went in with. But, what directors Stephen Kinigopoulos and Alexa King reminded me with their proposed story about a single mother, is even though I write about my own personal situations, it’s also everyone’s story: the human condition, our connected plight in a mad world. Regardless of how it’s expressed, we all struggle through something with hope on the other side. That’s this song and that’s this video. That’s also why I fell in love working with them immediately.”

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Video directed by: Stephen Kinigopoulos and Alexa King

Dying Star was co-produced by Kelly and Jarrad K (Kate Nash, Weezer) and recorded at Sonic Ranch in El Paso, TX. It includes 14 songs written/co-written by Kelly and features Kelly (lead vocals, acoustic guitar, xylophone, harmonica), Jarrad K (12-string guitar, background vocals, electric guitar, Rhodes), Tim Kelly (pedal steel), Ian Fitchuk (piano, organ, drums, percussion), Eli Beaird (bass) and Kyle Ryan (banjo) as well as background vocals from Jon Green, Natalie Hemby, Kacey Musgraves, Kate York, Abby Sevigny and Joy Williams. Of the album, Kelly comments, “A lot of my music is focused on suffering, or trying to understand the human condition through the lens of suffering…which probably sounds totally depressing, but it’s actually the flipside of that. Sometimes you’ve gotta go into that darkness—you need to get lost and then figure out for yourself how to find your way back. That’s the only way we can find pure joy, and really be thankful for the life we’ve been given.”

Dying Star Track List:
1 Cover My Tracks (written by Ruston Kelly, Jarrad K)
2 Mockingbird (written by Ruston Kelly)
3 Son Of A Highway Daughter (written by Ruston Kelly)
4 Paratrooper’s Battle Cry (written by Ruston Kelly)
5 Faceplant (written by Ruston Kelly, Jarrad K, Brendan Benson)
6 Blackout (written by Ruston Kelly, Jarrad K, Joy Williams)
7 Big Brown Bus (written by Ruston Kelly, Jarrad K, Ricky Brantley)
8 Mercury (written by Ruston Kelly)
9 Anchors (written by Ruston Kelly, Jarrad K)
10 Just For The Record (written by Ruston Kelly, Jarrad K, Lucie Silvas)
11 Trying To Let Her (written by Ruston Kelly, Joe Leathers, Kyle Jacobs)
12 Jericho (written by Ruston Kelly, Joy Williams, Natalie Hemby)
13 Dying Star (written by Ruston Kelly, Caitlyn Smith, Rollie Gaalswyk)
14 Brightly Burst Into The Air (written by Ruston Kelly)

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Music video by Ruston Kelly performing Mockingbird. © 2018 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.

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