Valerie June debuted songs from her upcoming album Owls, Omens, and Oracles during a visit to CBS Saturday Morning’s Saturday Sessions. In addition to the new LP’s first single “Joy, Joy!,” the Tennessee singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and her band also premiered Owls, Omens, and Oracles’ “All I Really Wanna Do” …
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Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, and Valerie June combined forces to call for a more transparent and equitable healthcare system in a new PSA set to air this Sunday during Super Bowl LVIII. Organized by the nonprofit group Power to the Patients, the spot specifically highlights the way hospitals and insurance …
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Valerie June, an expert at covers, takes on latter-day Duran Duran with her very own rendition of “Ordinary World.” While many artists covering songs tend to stay true to the original, June’s version is more stripped-down, her stark vocals contorting around the rhythm to emphasize the meaning of the Nineties …
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NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND — A decade ago, Pete Seeger gave the organizers of the Newport Folk Festival a mission statement. “If you’re going to have the torch, I need to know you’re going to continue to give the people who need a voice the voice,” Jay Sweet, the long-running festival’s …
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Valerie June is soulful and stirring as she dives deep into her own rendition of Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed,” the latest release from her newly announced EP Under Cover. The 8-track project, set for release on Aug. 26, will showcase the country-soul crooner’s elasticity for making cross-genre cuts her own. “This …
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