Ben Folds on Kesha: 'She's the Real Deal'

When Ben Folds played New York’s Beacon Theater in May, he shared a long anecdote onstage about the time a woman jumped into a hotel pool to retrieve his cellphone. That woman was Kesha.

“Just put it in rice,” Folds remembered the singer telling him. The encounter between the Top 40 pop star and the piano-rocker inspired a song…