Orville Peck

Winter, 2020

The man behind the mask has a voice of gold and nothing to hide. What will it take for a hidebound genre to embrace the new cowboy in town?The aptly named “party switch” featured in every room at the Dive Motel in Nashville has four options: SEX, DRUGS, ROCK & ROLL and SLEEP. Orville Peck, in a pair of horse-print tighty-whities, is boogying to the SEX station, which blasts 1970s R&B while a rotating disco ball shimmers in sparkly pink hues overhead. The lack of a television, plus the bright geo...