B.B. Palmer’s Cosmic Country on Display with “Simulation Theory” (premiere)
B.B. Palmer’s new song answers the long-standing question, “What might have happened if Charlie Louvin read the Bhagavad Gita while tripping?”
Alabama’s B.B. Palmer creates music steeped in American country music while keeping an eye on contemporary events. You can hear this on the latest Palmer opus,
Krishna Country, a record that bridges the distance between Ravi Shankar and Tom T. Hall with remarkable aplomb.
The latest single, “Simulation Theory” has sounds that harken back to the saturated colors and wide collars of Nashville during the 1960s and 1970s and lyrics that tap into the growing anxieties and conspiracies of the day, replete with references to lizard people, false flags and the nagging question of whether we are, in fact, living in a computer simulation. The lyrics are ripped from today’s virtual headlines but, like those headlines, it’s an important document of a moment in time when even the most skeptical among us has to wonder if the fabric of our lives is dangling by the weakest of threads. Ironically, it’s the surrealness of it all that pulls us back into reality, slaps us in the face, and makes us realize that Jewish space lasers aren’t really a thing.