Exclusive first listen! New from Mason Jennings :: "Fighter Girl"

Hot on the heels of a great solo Ed Vedder show last night (more later), I am so pleased to find a song from the new Mason Jennings album sitting in my inbox this morning -- fresh for the sharing with you all!

Mason's brand of songwriting has affected me with his vivid lyrical pictures and the simple honesty in his music (I interviewed him last year, if you missed it). "Fighter Girl" is a concert favorite that has finally made it onto a proper album for his upcoming effort In The Ever, due in May on Brushfire Records. This tune was previously on the If You Need A Reason bonus EP in a different version.

In The Ever is the follow-up to his major label 2006 record Boneclouds, on Isaac Brock's Epic-distributed Glacial Pace label. The new album was recorded during stripped-down sessions in Mason's home studio in the Minnesota woods. “It’s been a slow growth, but extremely fun for me,” he says. “For me, it’s about expanding and working from a place of joy. If I can enjoy what I do, and make new art that inspires me, everything will work out for the best.”

This is one of my favorite songs on the (excellent) new album:

Fighter Girl - Mason Jennings

Spinning your umbrella over your head
You should be in bed but you're here instead
Walking with me towards a midnight swim
I can give you baby what you can't get from him

Songbirds singing in an old dead tree
The way you drive honey scares the hell out of me
A hundred miles an hour on a brand new road
Look at me again, you make my heart explode

Hey hey little fighter girl
It's you and me now against this whole wide world
Sleeping together in the lion's den
Got your earrings in my pocket till I see you again

Clouds roll by, laying up on the hill
Everything is still, do you think we will?
If we do there'll be no turning back
If we don't -- well there's no chance of that

Come on kiss me
Keep on kissing me

Cars in the distance, a bicycle bell
Dogs are barking as the kingdom fell
And in its place stood a golden town
Where people walked without touching the ground


MASON IN THE COMING MONTHS
April/May - Co-headlining tour with Brett Dennen & Missy Higgins
June - Jack Johnson US tour & Bonnaroo
July - Jack Johnson European tour
August - Lollapalooza
September - Austin City Limits

All dates at www.masonjennings.com