Michelle Billingsley’s song “Gaslighting”—from her new debut album Not the Marrying Kind“—is featured on the most recent episode of the Adobe and Teardrops podcast. The track begins at 53:00.
American Songwriter recently called Michelle’s work “charming” and Glide said it was “biting & enigmatic” with the “knock ’em dead bravado of Nancy Sinatra and the blunt storytelling of Neko Case.”
Billingsley wraps her slyly cutting lyrics in her dry and dark sense of humor and whipsmart-assed vocal delivery. Her songs are genuine, irreverent, unique and fearless, and Not the Marrying Kind is a deceptively heavy set of songs. Yet somehow it’s still undeniably fun—fantastic whimsy mixed with black comedy and brisk little melodies that make the journey all the more powerful, human and affecting.
“Gaslighting” is a perfect example, an upbeat country-folk tune with plenty of John Prine-style wit and wise-assery on display as Billingsley’s unrepentant cheater of a protagonist tells a cockamamie tale that gets harder to swallow with each verse. LISTEN HERE…