Stranger

Direction, Cinematography & Editing - Elizabeth Olmstead Lila Blue - Acoustic Guitar & Vocals Phillip Roebuck - Resonator Guitar & Percussion Saskia Lane - Upright Bass Special thanks to Jordan Brooke Hamlin, Lake Wilkinson, Kat Cook & the MOXE crew. Recorded at MOXE in Nashville, TN. Produced by Lila Blue & MOXE. About the song: I wrote Stranger in the green room fifteen minutes before going on as an opener for Kevin Bacon’s band in Lincoln, Nebraska on Father’s Day in 2018, which sounds like a fever dream when I write it out. Being in the midwest on tour with the Bacon Brothers led to me ingesting a lot of country and folk music on the road, and I was left with a deep craving to write a tried and true country-folk tune. I wrote it a cappella, and then found the instrumentation weeks later. When I wrote it, I do believe that I thought I was singing it to an “other”, a figment of someone I hoped could love me and see me. Now looking back, it feels like a letter from my closeted eighteen year-old self to who I am now; still ashamed of so much of themselves, trying to write to the stranger they craved to become. It makes me endlessly happy to sing this song to her every chance I get from the proudly queer and deeply loved self I am now.