Valerie June

Thought her Letterman performance was pretty interesting, curious to hear more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPp7w3fHr1U

Trying to figure out what classic country singer she reminds me of -- she's a little more nasaly than June Carter or Loretta Lynn.

I keep seeing her around; I'm also curious

she seems to be a pretty serious student of the Anthology of American Folk Music and its ilk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opzRVqpU4Ms

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/04/207916507/first-listen-valerie-june-pushin-against-a-stone

NPR and the Lumineers like her and she's moved to Brooklyn(Williamsburg) but I will still give her a chance!

there is definitely something a little Paste/dadrock/oldmanhat about the way she is being packaged and marketed, but I think she is good. Better than Lumineers in any case.

Will get to her eventually, but I still need to hear O.B. Buchana's latest first. He's associated with Memphis too, but he's an Ecko label southern soul artist that never gets NPR attention and only XChuckX and I seem to like here.

A whole different musical style though it would be great to hear Booker T. Jones on one of his albums someday as well

I found this album sorta cloying and overwrought and I hated the one song that was obviously meant for people who were interested in the Dan Auerbach connection. She has a big NYT Mag feature this weekend.

saw her this weekend in Toronto. Really enjoyed the show. The tone in her voice is unusual, somewhere between Iris Dement and (maybe?) Malian singers like Khaira Arby? Bits of Jessie Mae Hemphill, too. I wish she'd played with a band, but solo was good, too. Sure silenced the room. Banjo. guitar and ukelele were all played. She ended off by wandering through the crowd singing "Goodnight Irene" with a tambourine.

heard "long lonely road" on the radio last night, i was impressed, this feels true which is unfortunate-->

there is definitely something a little Paste/dadrock/oldmanhat about the way she is being packaged and marketed,

Gilles peterson played some of her new album. Made me think I should've investigated her music year ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VKpYmJawyk

hey this is pretty good!

I definitely hear the Smithsonian Anthology influence

striking cover of "Pink Moon" here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDj0k4ALhvU

another killer show tonight in Eugene, the 2nd time this year I've seen her rock the fuck out to a sold out venue.

I think the reason she gets radio silence on ILM is because it's too "authentic" and/or "rootsy" or what the fuck ever, there's maybe some chatter on the rolling country thread but imho that pigeonhole does a disservice to an artist who covers Mazzy Star and frequently plays loud electric guitar in a 5-piece band

Yeah, her cosmic Americana is deftly directed on 2021 alb:https://valeriejune.bandcamp.com/album/the-moon-and-stars-prescriptions-for-dreamers
Under Cover out Aug. 26, covers range from Joe South to Frank Ocean to Gillian Welch to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (for instance), couple of advance tracks here:
https://valeriejune.bandcamp.com/album/under-cover-ep

Just saw her again live and I feel like her musical spectrum is getting even wider. She did some rocking songs where her guitar playing reminded me of Fat Possum hill country blues , and other even noisier ones that were like Sister Rosetta goes punk. Plus she did her rootsy Americana ones,with banjo or acoustic guitar, told stories about cooking and coming up with song ideas and talking to faeries, and imagining David Bowie being there . Some of that metaphysical rural chatter is a bit too cutesy or out there for uptight me, but the music range is so inspiring

Valerie June was also inspiring in that she does her own thing. Lives in wherever Tennessee, puts out her music and books ( poetry and essays) , tells her stories

Still thinking about part of that gig. So good and beyond how she’s pigeonholed

hoping she comes back to the west coast soon

new one is good!

https://valeriejune.bandcamp.com/album/owls-omens-and-oracles