Monsters Roam the Frontier on Keen Garrity’s Get Big
Keen Garrity is a songwriter/producer with deep country music roots making storybook pop-rock. On her debut album Get Big, this Knoxville, Tennessee native sings about creatures, grave robbing, and patent medicine within a landscape of grand rock arrangements dotted with country-western motifs.
The cast of characters in Get Big (which includes everyone from a parasitic twin to a petulant St. Peter) populates a lush world of music whose silly subject matter often belies a deep emotional undercurrent.
The album explores themes of self mythology and expansion. “Basically, these songs are about ways to cope with heartbreak and hurt. When something makes you feel insignificant and small, you make light of it. You turn the hurt outward and embrace grandiosity to an almost delusional degree,” Garrity explains. “How can you be hurt when you’re fifteen feet tall?”
Through such themes, Get Big explores the ways we make sense of our own lives and history. Garrity (Rebekah Burchfield) takes inspiration from her family’s musical history. Her grandfather and great uncle recorded two singles for Capitol Americana as guitar/fiddle duo The Burchfield Brothers. Her father, Tommy Burchfield, played fiddle as a child and young man on various radio and television programs in Knoxville – and, according to family stories, was invited to Archie Campbell’s house and even got to careen around the property in Campbell’s golf cart.
Get Big is now streaming on all major music platforms. Visit keengarrity.com for a free digital download of the title track “Get Big.”
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Audio Clips
I wanna travel where the sunset meets the land / Make the buzzards fly with thunder from my hand / I'll give a friendly wink, with kindness, smile wide / But when you look too long you'll see there's none inside. And I'll stroll on / I'll stroll on / I'll turn you to a ghost town then I'm gone / I'll turn you to a ghost town, then I'm gone. "Stroll On"
And it was time to get big / Gotta get SO BIG / Move heaven and the Earth with every footfall / Cause if you take the time / and do the things that I describe you won't be afraid of anything at all
And these ratty plumes stay plucked / because you know what hue they are / and these stunted wings stay tucked / cause you know I believe they won't take us far, no ...
I’d love to talk to you about my album or any other garrulous nonsense you’d like to get into. Podcast? Love to. Interview? Heck yeah. Please email me at info@keengarrity.com to get something set up.