Jess Williamson reveals new single, "Hum Of The City"

"Hum Of The City" follows previous singles "Goodbye to All That", "High Heels and Blue Jeans", and "Tracking the Tropics". The track follows the uncanny feeling of being in a place that feels familiar, but doesn't quite settle as "home".

“I'm kind of a wanderer by nature, and this song is about my complicated relationship with the idea of home," Williamson explains. "I've spent years feeling pulled between the excitement of life in the city and the peace of a more rural life, never quite sure where I belong."

“There’s a romance to being in hotels alone,” she continues. “I love checking into my room, going down to the hotel bar, and talking with the bartender. I once checked into a hotel and realized I was staying in the very same room I'd been in years earlier (room 12, from the song), during a completely different season of my life, right before a major life change . There's something uncanny about the anonymity of a hotel room holding such a personal memory.

"The song imagines a conversation with the hotel bartender, asking him to change the music. Sometimes contemporary music feels a little weird if you happen to have history with the person singing it. But old country music always hits.”