By Matt Mitchell for Paste –
Photos by Kali Spitzer
“Ken Pomeroy is good people. She also made one of this year’s best country records. I met the 22-year-old songwriter first in March, backstage at the Paste event in Austin Texas, after she sang a few at high noon, when the sun lapped at our backs while her voice grew louder than the nearby cars. I snapped a picture of her while the next band set up their gear. The film never developed right but her new album, Cruel Joke, showed up in my inbox a day or two later. I sat down with it in April, and one line got to me quick: “You’re talking too loud, they can hear you way up in the sky.” That’s when I knew it: Ken Pomeroy is a storyteller who’ll break your heart—her soprano voice can devastate every bit of you and cut up a rug all the same.”
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