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9 October 2026 – Jess Kerber Releases Louisiana Song and Mourns a Home That Climate Change Is Slowly Taking Away
By Editorial Team - October 9, 2026
Summary
Nashville songwriter Jess Kerber shares Louisiana Song ahead of album The World Is Dark, But I Want It To Be Funny, exploring personal grief and coastal erosion.
Key Facts
- Jess Kerber releases Louisiana Song ahead of album The World Is Dark, But I Want It To Be Funny on Felte.
- The song reflects on the physical disappearance of her childhood Gulf Coast home due to climate change.
- Co-produced with Will Orchard in their Nashville home studio.
- Entities: Jess Kerber, Will Orchard, Felte, Louisiana Gulf Coast, Nashville, Changing
- Tags: jess-kerber, louisiana-song, felte, folk, singer-songwriter, will-orchard, nashville
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jess Kerber has received fresh coverage for "Louisiana Song," a deeply personal single from forthcoming album The World Is Dark, But I Want It To Be Funny, due November 6 through Felte. Kerber grew up on Louisiana's Gulf Coast, a region whose physical landscape continues to change through erosion, rising seas and environmental pressures.
Her new song explores the unsettling experience of remembering a childhood home while knowing the place itself may eventually become unrecognisable. Rather than writing a conventional political protest song, Kerber approaches the subject through memory and personal attachment. The emotional weight comes from recognising that returning home is not always possible, even when the buildings and streets remain familiar.
The album was recorded primarily in Kerber's home studio with collaborator Will Orchard, allowing the pair to work at an unhurried pace around ordinary domestic life. "Louisiana Song" follows earlier single "Changing" and continues Kerber's delicate combination of folk songwriting, atmospheric arrangements and understated vocals. It is an effective reminder that enormous global problems are also collections of very personal losses.