Stream: Leslie Stevens, ‘Teen Bride’

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Leslie Stevens

With the August release of her new album “Sinner,” Leslie Stevens not only took care of unfinished business but continued to grow her legacy as one of Americana’s foremost singers and storytellers.

“Sinner,” like 2018’s “The Donkey and the Rose,” was made some years ago. Jonathan Wilson produced the new collection of alternately heart-rending and uplifting tales narrated in her radiant twang.

The video for the song “Teen Bride” captures the uncertain future a young woman faces at the moment of truth. The retro video is directed by Sarah Hamblin, and true to its feel it was filmed on a camera from the 1970s. “Since pregnant teenage girls have been forced to marry by their families throughout the decades, we wanted to tell the story and have it stretch over time — for it to feel old and older at the same time — but not really stamp any specific year on it,” Sevens told Ditty TV, where the video premiered. “We used a camera from the ’70s. But it’s got clothes from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, and you just kind of can’t tell when it’s happening.”

||| Watch: The video for “Teen Bride”

||| Also: Stream “Sinner” in its entirety

||| Previously: “12 Feet High”