Folk Bands and Artists
Mary Bragg
Nashville’s “Americana Queen” (Vice Noisey) Mary Bragg, with her new album Violets as Camouflage, has been heralded in Rolling Stone and NPR Music, which named the release one of the 10 best albums of March 2019; “Her clear, warm alto, reminiscent of Patsy Cline, was made for confidences, and these gorgeously crafted and executed songs touch the listener on a deep level, where insight occurs.”
For Bragg, the process of fully coming into her own began with her last record, 2017’s critically acclaimed Lucky Strike. Hailed as a “sublime distilling of Southern grit” and one of the year’s best by NPR, the album dipped its toes into a kind of radical honesty that Bragg had only previously hinted at, and it connected with audiences in profound and deeply personal ways. The record prompted Music City Roots to call the songs “infectious, smart, and resonant,” with World Cafe praising her “refined, sumptuously, melancholy take on Southern storytelling.” The title track earned Bragg first place in the prestigious Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at MerleFest in 2017, and the record’s second track, “Comet,” has racked up over three million streams on Spotify.
