The Secret Musical Universe of Lola Kirke
She played a classically trained oboist on TV. Now Lola Kirke is stepping out as a songwriter in her own right.
When Lola Kirke was 16, she stumbled upon a record at a flea market. The album cover struck her. “It was a photograph of this beautiful woman lying down in a field,” says Kirke, the 27-year-old Mozart in the Jungle star, who didn’t own a turntable at the time. She bought the album anyway, as a decorative artifact. Years later, when she finally got a record player and played it, "I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard.'"
, by a country-pop singer with the unforgettable name of Bonnie Guitar, was a little-known 1969 concept album about a woman cheating on her husband. Kirke played it constantly. About a year later, Kirke found a YouTube video of the singer and "tracked her down through
