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    8 Tracks: We reimagine Lilith Fair for 2024

    Recent songs by Maggie Rogers and Kacey Musgraves took NPR Music's Lars Gotrich back to a familiar sound and ethos. On this edition of 8 Tracks, we dream up a Lilith Fair lineup.
    by Lars Gotrich Feb 19, 2024 5 minutes
    Maggie Rogers' new song, "Don't Forget Me," is a folksy, yet fierce singalong.

    8 Tracks is your antidote to the algorithm. Each week, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich, with the help of his colleagues, makes connections between sounds across time. A slightly different version of this column originally ran in the NPR Music newsletter.

    There's something about a twang in an artist's voice that gets inside me. Maggie Rogers has always had those curlicues in her voice, but they were subdued in the deliriously joyful pop throttle of 2022's Surrender. But on her latest single, "Don't Forget Me," she unlocks the full range of the song's powers: Its soft acoustic strum, loping rhythm section and Rogers' powerhouse yodel that turns to an exasperated sigh during the lyric "Oh and every time I try just a little" just reduce my heart to a puddle.

    And while twang ain't, her recently released "Deeper Well" takes a turn toward Laurel Canyon fare: a song quickly fingerpicked, but sung with a slow and steady lilt, capturing her newfound realization about "how to take care of myself" in a zen state. It's one of her strongest songs since 2018's "Space Cowboy," and I can't wait to see her perform it live.

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