Handsome and the Humbles – “St. Therese”
Americana Highways is pleased to premiere the new song from Handsome and the Humbles, “St. Therese,” from their upcoming album, Draw Some Blood (slated for release on June 27). “St. Therese” was written by Joshua Mikhael Smith, composed by Smith and Joshua Hutson and recorded and mixed at Castle Greyscale in Knoxville, Tennessee by Kris “Tugboat” Killingsworth.
Handsome and the Humbles is Smith (vocals, guitar, bass, drums) and Hutson (guitar, backing vocals, keys, drums) with Kris Killingsworth (drums), Heidi Gilson (acoustic guitar, backing vocals) and Robert Richards (bass) featured on “St. Therese.”
The single is a riff-heavy, road-weary meditation on change and what home actually means – “I thought of all that would never be/All the places I would never see/They felt like home.” Smith’s inspiration from the song came a time of personal upheaval:
I actually wrote the song when I was on the road with Brian Paddock in 2019. I was going through a lot of changes in my life at the time and trying to figure out how to deal with mistakes I’d made and how I’d wrecked my personal life at the time. In the song, I finally say, “dust myself off and move on.” That’s kind of what the song is really about, I think—moving on. I don’t even know if it makes sense. It’s hard to put into words. Anyway, I sat on it for a while until I finally worked on it with Hutson (a long time Handsome and the Humbles member) and Kris Killingsworth (Thrift Store Cowboys). We brought in Heidi Gilson and Robert Richards to round it out, and I think it came out pretty good. – Joshua Mikhael Smith
For more on Handsome and the Bumbles, check out their Bandcamp: https://handsomeandthehumbles.bandcamp.com/
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