Weather Girl

“Weather Girl” came from the idea that some relationships can feel a lot like mountain weather — sunny one minute, storming the next, and changing before you ever have a chance to figure out what happened. The image that sparked the song was the thought of seeing a weather girl on the late-night news, talking about rain, snow, and cold winds rolling in, while realizing that kind of unpredictability felt a whole lot like a certain relationship.
The song plays with the words weather and whether, using that idea to tell the story of loving someone whose heart never seems to stay in one place for long. There’s a little humor in it, a little heartbreak, and a whole lot of traditional bluegrass drive behind it. At its core, it’s just a fun, hard-driving song about trying to make sense of someone who changes like the forecast.