Pokey Lafarge

Presented by Le New Morning. For twenty years, Pokey LaFarge has traced his own path with disarming ease, as a true iconoclastic troubadour: frank, sincere, and always ready to open up without hesitation.

With Rent Money, he takes a new step and signs what may well be considered his best album to date, both deeply personal testimony and lucid view of our society.

Carried by guitars with twang accents, driving rhythms, and irresistibly catchy melodies, the album rises and whirls with contagious energy. Behind its bright and federated choruses hides a persistent anxiety, reflection of the anguish traversing our troubled times.

As always, the artist from Illinois navigates brilliantly between genres, naturally blending the multiple currents of 20th-century American music with sincere songwriting, inhabited interpretation, and subtly subversive creativity.

Rent Money emerges as a summit in Pokey LaFarge's career: a major work signed by a one-of-a-kind artist, whose rare ingenuity is matched only by his frankness. More than ever, he pursues his path with determination, crafting profoundly human music that belongs only to him.