2012 Music Top

Position: 93 of 100

Artist: Betty Soo

Song: Who Knows

Album: Heat, Sin, Water, Skin (2009)

Alternate video link: http://www.vplay.ro/watch/m1v677zd/

Betty Soo is another discovery off the roots and blues podcast. A young singer  from Austin, Texas, genre-cast into the Americana section, she lets show some predominant folk influences and, despite this album back in 2009, she is completely unknown to most of the world. She has a nice soft voice and the rhythm structure of this song is uncomplicated. The mandatory touch of electric guitar is there, even though she's strumming on an acoustic. All in all, it makes for a nice and well rounded song.

The reason this particular song broke through my filter is in the lyrics. The story of uprooting is one that transcends time and space and, as such, we've all played in a version or another of it. The prospect of setting off from home, leaving it behind and hoping it'll all be there when you come back is something that I've experienced time and time again whenever the job called for me to pack my bags and fly across the continent. So far I've been lucky and everything held together at home, but, in truth, at that moment of departure, when you have that reflex "hole in the gut" moment, all you really have is "Who Knows?".