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...
Valerie June arrived on stage looking like she had come down from Mendocino for the night, wearing a fringe jacket and glistening skirt, all topped by organic locs (dreadlocks) spun round her head. By the second song, her shoes were off. And somewhere around the...