Kevin Morby wrote and demoed his new album, Sundowner, in the shed behind his home in a suburb just outside of Kansas City, Kansas.
The shed itself looks how you might expect from a musician with a disheveled aesthetic and abiding love for American rock history.
A Danelectro 59 and a Fender Mustang share space on the wall behind the drum kit; a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Elvis Presley grins back at the computer Morby is using to call me; and tucked into one corner is an almost 80-year-old pump organ that he picked up at an antique mall and now describes as the album’s “secret weapon.” Morby only moved back to Kansas City, a stone’s throw from where he was brought up, in 2017, after packing up and leaving Los Angeles.
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