Apartment Story: Tracy Bonham

 

photo courtesy of Sarah Be Photography

For our latest installment of Apartment Stories, the amiable and charming Tracy Bonham modeled through a smashed thumb to treat us to renditions of songs new and old during a morning of near-hilarity in her Brooklyn apartment — a session that yielded the first Apartment Story with a blooper reel at the end.

Bonham, who hit it big in the 1990s and early aughts with songs including radio smash "Mother, Mother," is enjoying a career resurgence on the heels of her latest effort, "Masts of Manhatta," which was recorded in Woodstock and Brooklyn and released earlier this summer. Longtime fans will recognize the songwriter's knack for witty, tongue-in-cheek lyrics over hook-y piano- and guitar-driven melodies.

This stripped-down rendition of "Reciprocal Feelings" from the new record shows that it will take a lot more than a bruised thumb to keep Tracy Bonham down.