Actor Lola Kirke ’12 Profiled in Rolling Stone
Lola Kirke ’12.
Rolling Stone interviewed actor, songwriter, and Bard alumna Lola Kirke ’12 about her recent country album Trailblazers. The album is about her experiences with failure, she says, “but also the growing ability to change the way you talk to yourself: ‘What if I’m actually not as horrible as I think I am? What if, instead of a failure, I’m a trailblazer?” Rolling Stone called Trailblazers “one of the sleeper country albums of the year” that “shows off Kirke’s gift for lyrical flair and performance art.”
While Kirke was recording the album, she also wrote her memoir Wild West Village about her childhood in New York and getting involved with country music. During the same period she acted in the recent film Sinners. Asked how she balanced all these projects, Kirke said “the book was kind of my compass of what stories I wanted to tell, [and then] I was like, ‘Some of those stories would make great songs’.”
Post Date: 04-30-2025
While Kirke was recording the album, she also wrote her memoir Wild West Village about her childhood in New York and getting involved with country music. During the same period she acted in the recent film Sinners. Asked how she balanced all these projects, Kirke said “the book was kind of my compass of what stories I wanted to tell, [and then] I was like, ‘Some of those stories would make great songs’.”
Post Date: 04-30-2025