Exclusive Download: Mason Jennings' Playful New Track 'Raindrops on the Kitchen Floor'

Mason Jennings

Daniel Field

Click to listen to Mason Jennings' 'Raindrops on the Kitchen Floor'

Singer-songwriter Mason Jennings released his ninth album, the introspective and deeply personal Minnesota, on September 13th. Cheerful strings and light and playful piano melodies fill his latest track, the love song "Raindrops on the Kitchen Floor," which Jennings explains to Rolling Stone is "one of those songs that kind of wrote itself, I felt the only thing it needed was a secret weapon in the chorus. So I asked my friend, Jason Schwartzman from Coconut Records to help me out." Mason Jennings' album Minnesota was released on September 13th, but you can download "Raindrops on the Kitchen Floor" for free here.

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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