Stream: Leslie Stevens, ‘Everybody Drinks and Drives in Heaven’
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If you’ve seen L.A.-based country siren Leslie Stevens at her intermittent performances over the past few years, you’ve smiled at least once — probably to “Everybody Drinks and Drives in Heaven,” which gets our nod as best damned country song that doesn’t include a single reference to a pickup truck. As happy as you’ll be to know that there are no DUIs once you pass through the pearly gates, it’s even better news that Stevens this week releases “The Donkey and the Rose,” her solo debut and the singer-songwriter’s first new music since Leslie Stevens and the Badgers released “Roomful of Smoke” in 2009. The album was produced by Kenneth Pattengale of the Milk Carton Kids, and “Everybody Drinks and Drives,” Stevens says, was penned “with fellow Midwesterner John Elliot under a tree in Mt. Washington a few years ago.” The song has been out in the world a few years — it’s been covered by several bands in Texas, for instance — because “The Donkey and Rose” has been out in the world a few years. Stevens had physical promo copies made during her tour with Milk Carton Kids. This week, however, album sees a proper release.
||| More: Coming tomorrow in our weekly BUZZBANDS.LA BLAST, Leslie Stevens talks about songwriting, collaborating and what took so darned long for her to release new music. Subscribe here.
||| Stream: “Everybody Drinks and Drives in Heaven”
||| Live: Leslie Stevens opens for Christian Lee Huston tonight at the Bootleg Theater. Tickets.
[…] the leave-no-dry-eye-in-the-house “Can I Sleep in Your Room” or the ticklish “Everybody Drinks and Drives in Heaven.” The album, which features Paul Cartwright on fiddle and mandolin, Eric Heywood on pedal steel and […]