Fenne Lily shares new single Dawncolored Horse


2023 press photo of Fenne Lily




Fenne Lily releases Big Picture on April 14th.

Fenne Lily‘s new single Dawncolored Horse was inspired by the Richard Brautigan poem The Horse That Had A Flat Tire.

“Brautigan talks about the woman he loves as being a ‘breathing castle’,” Lily said. “I truly don’t know what that means, but for me he’s distilled a feeling of absolute closeness. When you know someone so well it feels like you’re almost living inside them.”

“A lot of the music I was listening to while I was writing seemed to be old kind of country stuff; the album Anymore For Anymore by Ronnie Lane and Slim Change was a big one (‘hear Roll On Babe from ’74’) — anything that sounded warm and comfortable, just people in a room playing what came most naturally.”

“When I brought this song to the band it easily fell into that sort of world — it felt stable, which is cool for a song that came from a place of total instability.”


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