“I’m bound to leave you waiting by the front door,” Valerie June sings midway through her sophomore effort, The Order of Time. It’s hard not to think of Bob Dylan standin’ in the doorway cryin’, or the singers of countless other lovin’-and-leavin’ country-blues songs. But...
Valerie June brought her tour to Milwaukee's Turner Hall Ballroom to support her upcoming release The Order of Time. June has made a significant impact on the Milwaukee area, serving as an artist in residence for Milwaukee Public Schools. Read more about her here. Stephen Bloch...
Valerie June grew up in the little Tennessee town of Humboldt, which falls roughly between the country-music hub of Nashville and the blues and soul hub of Memphis. As is often the case for musicians from the South, the church played significantly into her musical education....
Valerie June announced her return with "Shakedown," a hill-country drone textured with keys and handclaps over a minimal, driving beat. The song stays coiled like a spring until the bridge, where the band cuts loose for a few wailing bars before settling back into the...
Singer-songwriter Valerie June made a splash with her debut album, 2014’s “Pushin’ Against a Stone,” an engaging and entrancing amalgam of rock, folk, blues and country she summarized as “organic moonshine roots music.” Her new album, “The Order of Time,” finds her moving into new sonic...
Brooklyn-based, Tennessee-raised singer/songwriter Valerie June Hockett (who tours as Valerie June) relishes each opportunity she gets to visit Chicago. As a performer, she’s enjoyed the warm reception the few times she’s played here. She also recalls visiting last summer for her cousin’s wedding. VALERIE JUNE When: 8...
“I could sing you a country tune/and carry the name Sweet Valerie June/But I got soul/yeah, I got soul/yeah, I got sweet soul.” Valerie June did do a country tune, some quiet, fingerpicking folk, a little dirty Southern blues. She strapped on an electric for thrashy...
It is two days after what is perhaps the biggest upset in presidential election history and the streets of New York City are unnaturally quiet. The city’s overarching feelings are pivoting between stunned, scared and sad. But sitting in her apartment in Brooklyn, Tennessee-born Valerie...
On her forthcoming album The Order of Time (due from Concord on March 10) Tennessee-bred singer-songwriter Valerie June settles into a more naturalistic groove, adjusting from her 2013 breakout Pushin’ Against a Stone—influenced by the heavy hand of producer Dan Auerbach—to something that feels morelike...
There has never been a voice quite like Valerie June’s, and it seemed to come out of nowhere in 2013. But there was a reason it was so full of wonder and yet so seasoned. She had a few years, clubs, coffeehouses and studios behind her before...