Lot 17
Kerri Medders sophomore EP (Apr 2017), four-track alternative pop; co-writer, producer, and instrumentalist Luke Francis Walton with Brandon Woodward.
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Lot 17, four-song alternative EP by Kerri Medders (April 17, 2017; Apple Music: ~14 minutes, ℗ Kerri Medders). Texas-born singer-songwriter and actress (SEAL Team, Alexa & Katie); follows earlier Etched (2015) and the 2016 single Fall Away, where Pop Culturalist has Kerri naming Luke Walton and Brandon Woodward as her producers who also double as my band members. Kerri framed Lot 17 as a frozen-in-time snapshot of age 17: Teenplicity on the vulnerable sophomore EP and an ‘80s-leaning palette (especially Slipping and Don’t Give In), with a Whitney Houston How Will I Know cover as tribute, not imitation.
Authorship: In Ouch! Magazine, Kerri says every song on Lot 17 except the cover was co-written with producers Brandon Woodward and Luke Francis: Kerri’s Luke Francis is Luke Francis Walton (formal PRO/credits name). Cry, Cry from the same era is credited “produced by FEID aka Luke Walton and Brandon Woodward” on the later Do Not Reply soundtrack page: same person, shortened in 2017–2019 press, not the NBA coach.
The EP cycle helped launch a High School Nation tour where Medders opened for Plain White T’s and Drake Bell in front of 90,000+ (per artist bio). Don’t Give In later appeared on the Do Not Reply (2019) film score, where Medders starred.
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Tracklist
1 of 3 original tracks have song-meaning notes so far.
- 1. Slipping
- 2. Cry, Cry
- 3. How Will I Know cover · Whitney Houston
- 4. Don't Give In meaning
Press
- Pop Culturalist: Fall Away Oct 10, 2016: Kerri on *Fall Away*: writes with producers Luke Walton & Brandon Woodward, who "also double as my band members."
- Ouch! Magazine: Rising Stars Kerri: every Lot 17 original co-written with producers Brandon Woodward and Luke Francis.
- Teenplicity: Lot 17 Sophomore EP; '80s-influenced pop/alternative on Slipping and Don't Give In; vulnerable age-17 project.