17 Nov CMT
Watching her songs come to life live onstage is like watching Dolly Parton, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and David Bowie perform together through one woman. Read More....
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17 Nov NPR
One of the most important things an artist can do in a time of violent desperation and brazen inequality like the one we're living in now is to make music that jars, disrupts and intervenes...
17 Nov Elle
Valerie June will be the first to tell you she hears voices. "They come from so many different places," says the singer-songwriter, punctuating each word with her molasses-thick West Tennessee drawl. "I do what I'm told. I have to be a listener." Read More....
11 Aug CMT EDGE: Valerie June Sings Those “Workin’ Woman Blues”
Tennessee native Valerie June learned to sing by listening closely to all the voices in local Church of Christ congregations — first in a predominantly black church and later in a mostly white church. But it was another voice that sang “Workin’ Woman Blues” to...
31 Dec NEW YORK TIMES: A Heady Brew of Organic Moonshine Roots
Valerie June was a bundle of endearing eccentricities when she performed at the Highline Ballroom on Friday night. Between songs, with a mixture of candor and caginess, she offered glimpses of her past and present as leisurely shaggy dog stories, told in her rural Tennessee...
05 Oct NPR: Tiny Desk Concert
Short of seeing her live and in person, this is the best way to encounter Valerie June's heartfelt sound. Her new album Pushin' Against a Stone is terrific, but when I first heard that voice unadorned, I was hooked. The same may happen to you. https://youtu.be/iBDrTHCSWDc...
30 Aug MTV: $5 Cover Amplified
Valerie June talks about her southern roots and her desire to be free from social constraints, as we see in her song, "No Draws Blues." Watch more here. ...
30 Aug OKAY PLAYER: Stones Don’t Stand A Chance Against Valerie June
If you have not yet encountered the music of Valerie June, we recommend you clean out your basement, stock up on candles and get yer waders on. Because–although she may not be popping up in your face every 5 minutes with snapchats, factoids and controversial...
26 Aug POP MATTERS: Pushin’ Against a Stone
“I ain’t fit to be no mother / I ain’t fit to be no wife / I’ve been working like a man y’all / I’ve been working all my life.” Quite a weighty, though supremely genuine and honest, way to initiate an album. On Pushin’...
16 Aug NEW YORK TIMES: Williamsburg-Appalachia- Country-Blues Goes Pop
Valerie June, the country-and-blues-ish musician, was exploring the vintage stringed-instrument store and repair shop RetroFret — a sprawling series of rooms accessible to the public only through a secret-feeling rooftop garden, which was itself up a flight of stairs and behind a nondescript silver door...