Watch Wonky Tonk’s “Four Letter Word” Video:
Let’s watch Wonky Tonk‘s new video for “Four Letter Word“. The work of Kentucky-based indie songstress Jasmine Poole, the track is on her upcoming limited edition 7″, Love Detox, due out February 17th. “Four Letter Word” will appear on the A-side of that release and this past week the song received an intriguing video treatment that you can check out above. The video was directed by Poole and David Morrison (drummer of The Ass Ponies), who also shot and edited the footage. Filmed at a cabin in Hocking Hills, OH, the visuals are a perfect accompaniment to Wonky Tonk’s tongue-in-cheek lyrics. Discussing the video for “Four Letter Word”, Poole explains:
“This song can not exist without the video and the video is meaningless without the song. We attempted to make something quite artfully conscious; the song appears, on surface, a general country tune and I feared that the words would be lost on most listeners. The honesty behind them needed a raw visual to force the listener to actively…listen in order to understand the relationship between the beauty and magic as well as the sacrifice and reality of what we all continually search for: love.”
Lyrically, “Four Letter Word” contrasts the singer’s younger, naive views of love with a more adult assessment of its’ realities. Visually, this is accomplished in several ways. The video opens with a shot of a broken picture frame on the ground before panning to a bouquet of dead flowers on the window sill next to a greeting card that reads, “Love Grows Here”. Throughout the video, these kitschy knick-knacks depicting this more innocent, Hallmark vision of love and youth is played against the singer’s growing realization of its’ thornier details. And, while the irony of an embroidered statement like “Wherever you are, That’s where I’ll be…”, in a picture frame that reads “Scam”, is pretty straightforward, the singer’s progressive revelation that she stands before us wearing nothing at all presents a more complex visual metaphor about the “sacrifice” that love requires. “Shit, fuck, and damn/Love IS a four letter word”!
Wonky Tonk Live
Wonky Tonk has a bunch of live shows planned for this coming Spring. Things kick off later this month in Kentucky, before Poole heads out for East Coast and Midwest dates in March. Check out the list below…
Feb 09 Mag Bar Louisville, KY
Feb 10 Hard Rock Cafe Pigeon Forge, TN
Feb 11 Barley’s Taproom Maryville, TN
Feb 25 Fitton Center Harrison, OH
Mar 03 Town Run Brewing Co Shepherdstown, WV
Mar 04 The Empty Glass Charleston, WV
Mar 05 Black Bear Hendersonville, NC
Mar 07 Wolfe Street Brewing Harrisonburg, VA
Mar 08 Ortlieb’s Philadelphia, PA
Mar 09 The Way Station Brooklyn, NY
Mar 09 Rockwood Music Hall New York, NY
Mar 10 Newbury Port Brewing Company Newburyport, MA
Mar 11 Dusk Providence, RI
Mar 13 Bullfrog Brewery Williamsport, PA
Mar 15 Arsenal Bowling Lanes West Pittsburg, PA
Mar 17 Plain Folk Cafe Pleasant Plain, OH
Mar 18 South Park Tavern Dayton, OH
Mar 23 Trempealeau Hotel Restaurant & Saloon Trempealeau, WI
Mar 24 Art Bar Milwaukee, WI
Mar 25 Chicago Street Pub Joliet, IL
Mar 31 The Southgate House Revival-Revival Room Newport, KY
Apr 05 Willie’s Locally Known Lexington, KY
Apr 06 Kimbro’s Pickin’ Parlor Franklin, TN
Apr 07 Talon Winery Lexington, KY
Apr 08 Talon Winery Shelbyville, KY
Apr 09 Preservation Pub Knoxville, TN
Apr 18 People’s Brewing Company Lafayette, IN
May 05 Talon Winery Lexington, KY
May 06 Talon Winery Shelbyville, KY
May 12 CROOKED SMILE FEST Winchester, IN
May 20 Owl Creek Vinyards Cobden, IL
May 25 Oskar Blues Brewery Brevard, NC
May 26 Sanctuary Brewing Company Hendersonville, NC
May 27 The Pompei Lounge Staunton, VA
Jun 17 Owl Creek Vinyard Cobden, IL
Jul 29 Smashing Summer Saturdays Paducah, KY
Feb 11 Barley’s Taproom Maryville, TN
