Fast-rising Americana artist Grace Askew’s ‘Scaredy Cat’ came out
earlier this month to across-the-board raves. Her killer video and interview session
for Yahoo! Music just posted Friday.
Here’s what we’re reading:
“Sultry… The perfect place to listen to this album is a dark dive bar with a tallboy in my hand.”
- Jim Casey, Rolling Stone, June 9, 2014
“Beautifully haunting… astoundingly defiant.”
- SPIN, August 6, 2014
"I've been spinning this record all week... She's got a gnarly, sultry voice and a guitar style that is gritty and real.”
- Sean L. Maloney, Nashville Scene, August 1, 2014
“Killer slide guitar player with a sultry swagger.”
- Julia St. Pierre, LA Mag.com, July 31, 2014
“Fabulous… badass.”
-Lyndsey Park, Yahoo! Music, August 21, 2014
“For fans of Lana Del Rey, Cat Power… Once you hear Grace’s voice, you
can’t unhear it… simultaneously sultry, twangy, and growly.”
- Teen Vogue, August 2, 2014
“Fierce… She’s progressing forward, and in some particularly gutsy ways.”
- Brice Ezell, Pop Matters, August 8, 2014
“Raw, rootsy, and uniformly arresting… Her sultry drawl is both seductive and soulful"
- Nick Cristiano, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 24, 2014
“Cool Memphis style.”
- Will Minter, American Songwriter, July 30, 2014
"Askew is relentlessly creative."
- Joe Boone, Memphis Flyer, July 24, 2014
“Devastating.”
- Cameron Matthews, Bluegrass Situation, July 23, 2014
“Like a confident love child of Blind Willie McTell and Bobbie Gentry;
her gritty slide playing and slurred, come-thither alto make a potent
combo.”
- Bliss Bowen, Pasadena Weekly, August 7, 2014
“4 stars… riverting…genuine… Her voice warbles, trembles, swings and flips.”
- Chuck Campbell, Knoxville News-Sentinel, August 12, 2014
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