Murfreesboro, TN – Nashville-area producer/musician, Jason Dietz, of Murfreesboro, TN production company, Twin Oak Recordings, has recently put together a showcase track featuring vocalist Lizette Kehrer in a fuzz-heavy, 90’s femme-rock cover of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit,” pieced together by the Twin Oak production team/assistant producers, guitarist, David Talley; drummer, Taylor Powell; and Dietz, himself, fuzzing the bass.

Folk & Proper got Jason Dietz on the phone, Aug. 23:

Dietz:  Yeah, man.  It was just kinda something for fun. We got together to record the demo (it was [tracked] a long time ago when Taylor was playing with us, [but] I don’t remember when), [but] it was kinda just one of those situations like, ‘Hey, Taylor, do you want to come over and play some drums and see what happens?’ David and I had the intention of tracking the song, and then we kinda fcked with the arrangement a little bit and made it into a heavy thing.  I’ve always wanted to cover that. -Visualized it as, like, a heavy song, and then we got to put vocals on it.

What got Liz on board?

Dietz:  She’s always wanted to sing and [has] had the desire in it since she was a kid and loves to work at things she’s good at doing.  […] I think she’s [been onstage] with a live band a couple times in a place I used to work at, but has never really done it, y’know.

I’m like, ‘man, your voice is awesome.’ ‘There’s no reason you and I shouldn’t dick around in the studio together whenever we have some free time.’

Hopefully this will be fun for us making some music together and see what happens. It’s a weird contrast of heavy weed eater-style cover with pop vocals on it.

The director, Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi, From Dusk Till Dawn), he’s DIY, hardcore, when it comes to the scores and soundtracks of his movies, so he’s got a studio set up at his place.
Talley’s guitar, Powell’s drums, and your bass is straight out of a Robert Rodriguez production, and it’s awesome. You put Liz on top of it and it’s a pretty sweet version of “White Rabbit.”

In the floating-around wav. file, Kehrer unavoidably taps into the pronunciations in Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick vocality, but adds a 90’s femme-punk/alt. rock influence, too, that’s more so found in Elastica rather than the Veruca Salts, Liz Phairs, and Holes elsewhere along the 90’s femme alt. rock spectrum.

Lizette Kehrer and The Twin Oak trio hearken a production sound of the 90’s, -or, a sound that made the 90’s the 90’s when remembering it, and always with intent to follow up with additional tracks in the near future.

Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit,” from their second studio release, 1967’s Surrealistic Pillow has been featured in various forms across popular culture media: Oliver Stone’s Platoon (1986), 2019’s Twilight Zone TV series, Stranger Things (2016), a few episodes of The Simpsons (1998’s “D’oh-in’ in the Wind,” 2005’s “Midnight RX,” and 2008’s “Mona Leaves-a”), as well as Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (movie, 1998).

Lizette Kehrer’s “White Rabbit,” by Twin Oak Recordings, August 25, 2023: