{"id":18332,"date":"2013-08-29T16:03:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T00:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=18332"},"modified":"2013-08-29T16:12:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T00:12:47","slug":"watch-sharon-van-etten-perform-new-song-tarifa-at-pickathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-08\/watch-sharon-van-etten-perform-new-song-tarifa-at-pickathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Sharon Van Etten Perform New Song “Tarifa” at Pickathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of our favorite female singer-songwriters, the always-earnest Sharon Van Etten<\/strong><\/a>, performed at the recent Pickathon<\/strong> music festival. While there, Van Etten<\/strong> performed an unplugged version of her trembling new song Tarifa<\/strong> <\/em>for KEXP<\/strong>.\u00a0 Van Etten explained the song thus:\u00a0 “this next song is about a vacation, it\u2019s a new one that we\u2019ve been working on, it\u2019s call Tarifa\u2026.it\u2019s [in Spain] on a f!@$ing cliff overlooking Morocco, \u00a0but it is amazing \u2013 in the middle of nowhere. There was a bunch of bulls, that I was afraid of, in the pasture next to me, but they could give a shit that I was there. They didn\u2019t try to run me over or anything weird. I had to ask my boyfriend, I was like \u2018can I wear red? Are they gonna charge at me?\u2019 They didn\u2019t. I tried it out. It was fine. Anyway, this song is about that.\u201d Go figure.<\/p>\n

After, listen to one of her best, Give Out<\/strong><\/em>. And while you’re at it, go over and buy a Van Etten-made t-shirt<\/strong> (shown at bottom) to support a good cause: The Yellow Bird Project<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n