Stereo Embers The Podcast 0039: Jessi Williams (The Lonely Wild, Jessi Williams and Coyote)

“Going Through A Ghost Phase”

After getting divorced and moving out West with her young daughter, singer/songwriter Jessi Williams found herself going through a ghost phase. Whether she was reading or writing about ghosts, that seemed to be the subject matter she’d landed on for the time being. And Williams’ new EP with her band Coyote is full of those ghosts—they weave in and out of the five songs that comprise the self-titled effort with a mysterious spectral muscle. In these compositions Williams surveys the broken landscapes of our pasts—romance, friendships, and shifting geographies—and she finds that all of them have their own species of ghosts that need to be reckoned with. In this conversation, Williams talks to Alex about motherhood, sleep paralysis and reading Frankenstein. They also discuss her friendship with Nashville singer/songwriter Margo Price, the #Metoo
movement and whether it’s easier to be creative early in the morning or late at night.