Lesley Barth - "Nashville"
Photo by Harish Pathak For a song called "Nashville," this one isn't very country. Sure, Lesley Barth's song has some country elements, but they are minimal, at most. "Nashville" is a gorgeously wrought indie folk song. It has a dark, intense feel that starts off with just Bath's vocals, a strummed guitar, and haunting strings nearly hidden way in the back. It builds almost impossibly slowly with drums and more strings joining. Lesley Barth explains "Nashville": " I challenged myself to write 30 songs in 30 days to celebrate turning 30 (i.e. avoid thinking about turning 30), and this song came out of that. I was still working at my corporate job at a tech company, and I ostensibly wrote this song about a guy my husband played with once, who had a great voice and presence and wrote good country tunes, but played in bars in New York City. Of course, I realized later this song was about me and my feeling that I wasn’t where I was supp...