Mount Washingtonby Beth Orton

Beth Orton’s music career began when she bummed a cigarette off of electronic producer William Orbit at a party, resulting in a collaboration that would lay the groundwork for her first two folktronica-leaning albums, 1996’s Trailer Park and 1999’s Central Reservation, both of which received Mercury Prize nominations. Over on the KEXP blog, you can download a song-of-the-day podcast of “1973” from her 2016 album, Kidsticks.