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Elle King – ‘Come Get Your Wife’ review

Oh Elle yeah. 

Elle King is a-freaking-legend. Not only did the rock-country-blues artist co-perform (with Miranda Lambert) 2022’s most played song (on my Spotify) but the track appears on her brand new album ‘Come Get Your Wife’ and it’s not even the best song of the 13 (of course) unapologetically-Elle tracks. 

Like the vast spectrum of colours in between and of a rainbow, King naturally performs across a gamut of music genres, her beloved banjo drawing everyone (with any good taste in music) in to her insanely talented voice. 

Her third studio album resonates with her life, from the haunting, home-based, banjo-picking ballad, ‘Ohio’ opener with rural scenes of bliss, “All I need on a Friday night/Is some Coors in the cooler and a few fireflies…every time I leave, man, it hurts like hell”. 

‘Lucky’ is a stunner of a track, a steel guitar blending with the banjo providing the backdrop to resonating lyrics, “I got lucky/Well, ain’t that something/For someone just like me/Who don’t deserve a damn thing” yet at the same time the vulnerable truth is owned; “I chose it, yeah, I own it”. You can just tell that both lyrics and music matter for Elle King. 

The rocking ‘Tulsa’, with backing vocals from Ashley McBryde, demonstrates just how much fun you can have with lyrics, getting cross with a lad, without resorting to swearing on a record; “that Mother truckin’ son of a gun…He went back to Tulsa…if you spell it back to front you gonna know what I mean”. Marvellously biting lyricism.

Two songs vie for my favourite album tracks; ‘Crawlin’ Mood’ and ‘Bonafide’. The former (co-written by Charlie Worsham and Jesse Frasure) is an upbeat trying-to-apologise song, acknowledging that it’s tough to do so, “Crawling is the only way to make my way back to you/Baby, I ain’t in no crawlin’ mood”. Bonafide (co-written by Elle King, Bobby Hamrick, Ella Langley & matt McKinney) sounds like the soundtrack to an ‘80s country film, with a beautiful bluegrass vocal and harmonies, “My left foot’s on my right foot, my right foot’s in my mouth…Well I ain’t ever lonely ‘cause it’s me, myself and I/You can bet your ass we’re crazy bonafide”. You can almost hear the Patsy Cline/Loretta Lynn inspiration in this song. 


In 2022, ‘Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)’ with Miranda Lambert was King’s second Grammy Award nomination for Best Country Duo/Group Performance (Brothers Osborne won for Younger Me and I really want a Brothers/King collaboration, don’t you?) King had also been nominated in 2017 with Dierks Bentley for Different For Girls. She is the winner of two CMA Awards AND 2016’s Ex’s and Oh’s earned her Grammy nominations for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song. 

Elle King’s A-freaking-men US tour starts February in New Orleans.

Hands up who wants to see Elle sass across the Rhinestone Stage at The Long Road festival? 

Elle King
Credit Sony Music Nashville


Track List: 1. Ohio 2. Before You Met Me 3. Try Jesus 4. Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home) with Miranda Lambert 5. Lucky. 6. Worth A Shot (ft. Dierks Bentley) 7. Tulsa 8. Crawlin’ Mood 9. Bonafide 10. Blacked Out 11. Out Yonder 12. Jersey Giant 13. Love Go By Record Label: Sony Music Nashville Release Date: 27th January Buy ‘Come Get Your Wife’ now

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Oh Elle yeah.  Elle King is a-freaking-legend. Not only did the rock-country-blues artist co-perform (with Miranda Lambert) 2022’s most played song (on my Spotify) but the track appears on her brand new album 'Come Get Your Wife' and it’s not even the best song of...Elle King - 'Come Get Your Wife' review