In late 2020, Steve Poltz wrote and released "Quarantine Blues," an unabashedly irreverent song that found him rhyming "coronavirus" with "Miley Cyrus," "vaccine" with "hydroxychloroquine," and "Fauci" with "grouchy."
Last month — in a case of life imitating art that he wishes had never happened — Poltz spent two weeks in quarantine after contracting COVID-19. He came down with the illness following his four indoor performances in mid-January at the annual 30A Songwriters Festival in Florida.
"I was fully vaccinated and boosted, but I let my guard down — nobody was masked and I was shaking hands and hugging people," said the former San Diego troubadour, who now lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
