About This Song
About "Darlin Corey" by Amythyst Kiah
Amythyst Kiah reclaims 'Darlin Corey' with a sparse, haunting arrangement. Her voice—raw, unadorned—cuts through a fog of reverb and fingerpicked guitar. The murder ballad's violence is offset by a weary tenderness, as if the singer knows the story's end but sings it anyway.
