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Marcus King Goes Full Soul Man on New Song ‘F-ck My Life Up Again’
Listen to Marcus King's new soul ballad 'F-ck My Life Up Again' with producer Rick Rubin.
Occasionally employing horn sections and deep-pocket grooves, he’s dipped into that side of his South Carolina upbringing before — but not quite to the degree heard on his new single. The arrangement is the perfect match for a lyric in which King, in full moaning-in-the-morning mode, digs into what sounds like a particularly dysfunctional relationship: “I don’t deserve to live without pain/Destroy all my confidence again/Watch me lose control and feel ashamed.” Onstage and on record, especially on 2022’s Young Blood, King can effortlessly peel off Southern-fried riffs; if the Allman Brothers Band still existed, he’d be a natural to join them.
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