When addressing the crowd, Moroney explained, “I’ve never played this one in a show before, so y’all are the very first large group of people to hear it. It’s a song that I wrote for my niece, ...
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The song is many things: comforting, manipulative, cathartic, a little threatening. Most importantly, it is a vessel, which empties out at the... This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter.