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Coming Down Hard

by Willow & Wood

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Nashville folk noir duo Willow + Wood will release the third single from their new album Tornadoes in My Head September 25.

“Coming Down Hard” is a goodbye letter of sorts, a letter of letting go of the band’s hometown of Seattle, and welcoming a new life in Nashville. It is perhaps the hookiest on the album, a masterclass in confessional storytelling, anchored by a Music Row-sized hook. The song hints at Red Dirt Girl-Emmylou, mixed with the regret of a Dawes B-side ballad. It’s warm, but it makes you shiver. Ironically, it was the first song the band wrote when they moved to Nashville.

“We moved here towards the end of September, five years ago,” singer Willow Scrivner recalls. “I remember the first couple weeks were so dreamy and warm. Almost every day we'd get these crazy, late afternoon rains that would make for an incredibly steamy and sultry evening. Even though the rains were very different from the rain we'd get in Seattle, I couldn't help but be reminded of our friends and family we left behind and how much I missed them.”

“Something about the way the recording of the song unfolded reminds me of the drive as you head east on I-90, Seattle in your rearview mirror, the misty Snoqualmie Valley and the Pass ahead,” she continued.

It’s a song that leaves most of America right out in front of you, coming down with the cold hard truth of moving on, tinged with just enough hope for the adventure. “Coming Down Hard” is available worldwide on streaming outlets September 25. The album, Tornadoes in my Head, will be released later this year.

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Coming Down Hard

It’s a warm night,
Last of September on the South side
Well hang me up to dry
Cause it’s coming down hard.

If I told you
I don’t even miss you
I don’t even think of you
More than a dozen times a night.

Will you dream me a river?
Throw me a line,
Write me a letter?
I’m running out of time.
I could’ve done better,
But I guess I’m doing fine.

But when it’s raining like this
It reminds me
Of the last time I heard your voice
Out on the West Coast.

Now it’s a warm night,
Last of September on the South side,
Hang me up to dry
Cause it’s coming down hard.

Sing me a river,
Throw me a line,
Write me a letter,
We’re running out of time.
We should’ve done better,
But I guess we’re doing fine.

Now it’s a cold night,
End of October on the South side,
Well, baby, hang me up to dry
Cause I’m still coming down hard.

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released September 25, 2020

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Willow & Wood Nashville, Tennessee

Gathering raw energy like lightning rods in an electrical storm, the music of Willow & Wood is a kind of folk-noir that's as eerie as it is soothing.

"Willow & Wood are a hypnotic duo that get high marks for the melodic sensibilities,melancholy notes, and genuine folk Americana style. Imagery that gets under your skin. “Kindling For a Fire” is wickedly haunting and beautiful beyond description” ... more

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