02 Jan Newsweek:
MY TURN 'I Lost My Grandmother, But The Gifts She Gave Me Changed My Life' ...
MY TURN 'I Lost My Grandmother, But The Gifts She Gave Me Changed My Life' ...
So thrilled to announce 📣 that I’ve written a children’s book about my baby banjolele!! I teamed up with Mexican-American artist, Marce Avelar whose illustrations are so brightly colorful they could be the stars in the sky! Yayyyyy!!!! It’s release day, and there’s a link in...
The deluxe edition of my latest album, “The Moon & Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers” which includes covers of Nick Drake, John Lennon, and Stephen Foster is out now everywhere! https://found.ee/VJthemoonandstarsdeluxe The deluxe edition of my latest album, “The Moon & Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers” which includes covers...
A poetic call for mindfulness, creativity, and analog real-world connection in an increasingly disconnected world from singer-songwriter Valerie June. Maps for the Modern World is a collection of poems and original illustrations about cultivating community, awareness, and harmony with our surroundings as we move fearlessly toward our...
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Backstory Her beautifully deep voice might be sexy now, but it didn't always hold such allure: "As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs," June says. "My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded—like an old man when...
The Memphis, Tenn.-born singer-songwriter’s “The Order of Time” is among the most irresistible albums of the year. June’s armed with a voice that can slip into the drawling, sandy-edged tributaries of Southern R&B or the creaky folk-blues of Karen Dalton, and her music defies easy...
We Say: Her second LP is louder and more confident than her beguiling debut, steeped deep in electric blues and old-time folk, gilded in country twang and gospel yearning, with a hypnotically gnomish voice that suggests a brawnier Joanna Newsom. Near-perfect front to back, its...
Americana goddess Valerie June is a model for patience and timing in life and music. Her 2013 breakout Pushin’ Against a Stone left us all wanting more, but June knew better than to rush her next musical move. Instead, she entered a season of waiting, listening...
If you haven’t heard the love-lorn, soulful, rich, powerfully beautiful, country twang-induced, rurally recognizable voice of this week’s First Look Friday subject then can you really call yourself an audiophile? Fresh from Humboldt, Tennessee, Valerie June is a product of her environment + embodies pure strength, resiliency and confidence...