"Better Things" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in the previous This Year or Portions For Foxes series. See the introduction for more.
Nicole Atkins almost made it into last year's list - she might have been the artist I dropped last, getting down to the final 52 (since it was one song for each week of the year).
I don't know if this is my favorite song of hers: she's done so much, in so many styles, that it's gauche to pick just one.
But I love the honky-tonk piano here, and Atkins is in top vocal form on this song, and it's from what I think is still her most recent record of all-new songs. So let me give you In the Splinters.
Any other night,
But not this one!
Any other night,
I’d wish the world would end!
It's another song from a singer knocked around - maybe by love, though the song doesn't specify - talking directly to the person responsible, and saying "not this time."
Atkins has a great set of pipes, and she belts this song out with the best of them. It's not her most subtle song - she has a lot of more nuanced stuff, too - but for a potential bar-room singalong, I can think of nothing better.
This one goes out to anyone in the splinters right now - I don't know if that's an actual saying, but I think you know pretty much what it means, just hearing it once, and that's what matters - who need to get that bucking up of but not this one!
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