Premiere: Jane Kramer "Waffle House Song"

Credit: Rose Kaz

Hailing from North Carolina, former social worker turned touring folk singer, songwriter, poet and story-teller Jane Kramer has been playing music and touching hearts for more than 18 years.

On March 1st, Kramer will release her new album, Valley of the Bones, a collection of ten thoughtfully nuanced songs dealing with the beauty and mess of shared human experiences that spark a connection with the listener.

Today, TDC is thrilled to premiere one of the album's cuts, "Waffle House Song." Penned by Kramer, whose light and airy vocals lead the way alongside dobro and shuffling percussion, "Waffle House Song" offers a comfy front porch feel while gently administering an empowering goodbye to an immature lover via an on point comparison to that late night staple.

"Waffle House Song" proves that while Kramer may be eighteen years into her journey, she is solidly serving up a sizzlin' hot and delicious portion of nourishment for one's soul.....kinda like that yellow signed place she sings about.

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"I need a smothered, scattered, covered, all the way love
No good time boys or cowboys, a boy ain't enough
I need a grown up man wearing big boy pants standing straight up
 Giving me smothered, scattered, covered, all the way love.
 I like my hot sauce with a couple scrambled eggs on top
 I like my coffee with whiskey and cream
 I like my man just like I like my breakfast
 To fill up my plate, if you know what I mean"

Kramer shares the story behind the song, "I spent plenty of late nights in my late teens and early 20s in, (and being kicked out of,) the Swannanoa, NC Waffle House. Cut to my mid-thirties: I wrapped up a 4-year stint of living on the west coast in self-proclaimed exile, and when I drove back across the country and started seeing Waffle Houses, I knew that I was home. I stopped at one off  I 95, ordered some hash browns and started writing this song. I was pretty freshly out of a long relationship, moving back across the country to my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains to start over, and was ready to recalibrate my life, leave behind the things that were weighing me down and ask for the kind of love that I knew I was worthy of: a smothered, scattered, covered, all-the-way love. Coming from a grown-up man wearing big boy pants. When you think about it, great and substantial love is a lot like great breakfast. " 

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