Carter Beckworth is Simply Poetic on New “Jillian” Single and Lyric Video [Premiere]

Carter Beckworth is one versatile, well-rounded fellow. You’ll get a sense of this from his brand new single “Jillian,” one of the featured tracks on his brand new full-length titled pocketknife, which he is in the final stages of preparing for release. There’s a relaxed, country feel to this song, with Carter having actually written the lyrics as a poem when he first began dating the woman who would later become his wife. It remained solely a poem for many months until he began to write music to go along with it, which actually runs in stark contrast to Carter’s usual process. Typically, he writes lyrics and melodies simultaneously, but the fact that “Jillian” was originally a poem has infused it with even more emotion and feeling than what you typically get from an artist who could...

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