Music Recommendation: Zoe FitzGerald Carter — “I Wanna be a Teenage Boy”

BRUCE’S RECOMMENDATION OF BANDCAMP MUSIC

Music: “I Wanna be a Teenage Boy”

Album: WATERLINES

Artist: Zoe FitzGerald Carter

Artist Location: Berkeley, California

Info: “Zoe’s first solo album, WATERLINES, showcases her lyric-driven songs and distinctive, deep-honey voice. An author/journalist as well as song-writer, she’s played with a number of Bay Area bands. Her first CD, WAITING FOR THE EARTHQUAKE, was recorded with her longtime Americana string band, Sugartown. It was released in 2018.”

“The album straddles a range of musical styles. My musical roots are pretty firmly planted in Americana and folk but I’ve come to love the complexity and texture of jazz and Latin music, some of which found its way onto the album. I even ventured into funk on ‘I Wanna Be A Teenage Boy,’ co-written with San Diego keyboardist, Hindy Bare, during the Kavanaugh hearings. We were both going crazy, but at least we got a cool bass line out of it.”