Valerie June

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Valerie June (2013)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Pushin 'Against a Stone
  CH 29 05/19/2013 (5 weeks)
  UK 56 05/18/2013 (2 weeks)
  US 41 08/31/2013 (4 weeks)
The Order of Time
  CH 38 03/19/2017 (1 week)
  US 111 04/01/2017 (1 week)

Valerie June Hockett (* 1982 in Jackson , Tennessee ), known as Valerie June , is an African American singer , songwriter and multi-instrumentalist . Her style mixes folk , blues , gospel , soul and bluegrass . She herself describes her music as "organic moonshine roots music".

biography

Born in Jackson as the oldest girl of five siblings, Valerie June grew up in Humboldt (Tennessee) . She was musically influenced by gospel singing in church and her father's love of R&B and soul.

In 2000, Valerie June moved to Memphis and began performing when she was 19. At first she formed the duo Bella Sun with her then husband, after the marriage she continued solo. She learned to play the guitar, banjo and ukulele. She earned her living with numerous jobs. In 2009 she starred in the MTV series $ 5 Cover , which portrayed the lives of Memphis musicians. In 2010 she recorded the EP Valerie June and the Tennessee Express , a collaboration with The Old Crow Medicine Show.

In 2011 she was named Emissary of Memphis Music by the Memphis and Shelby County Music Commission . She started fundraising on the Internet to record her own album; in 60 days raised $ 15,000. In the same year she moved to Williamsburg in the New York borough of Brooklyn . She met Dan Auerbach from the Black Keys through producer Kevin Augunas ; Augunas and Auerbach produced their album Pushin 'Against a Stone , Auerbach was also involved as a co-author. The first track on the album Working Woman Blues was produced by the Budapest underground musician Péter Sabák , who also directed the video clip for the song and played bass on two tracks. The recordings of Pushin' Against a Stone took place in Nashville (Tennessee), Los Angeles (California) and Budapest (Hungary). It was Valerie June's first album on a record label; she had previously released three CDs on her own. The album was released in Europe in early May 2013.

In 2012 she worked with various artists, e.g. B. with Meshell Ndegeocello on their song Be My Husband . She appeared in the UK at Bestival and on the television show Later ... with Jools Holland . In February 2013 she was in the opening act for Jake Bugg . In March 2013, she made two appearances at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin , Texas . In April of the same year she performed at the Prince Charles Club in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

The music magazine Rolling Stone described her debut as "beguiling" and her voice as "hypnotically gnomish voice " and her singing as "sometimes childlike -sometimes-antiquated vocals " ( sometimes-childlike-sometimes-antiquated vocals ) recently released album among the best 50 albums of the year so far.

Discography

Albums

  • 2006: The Way of the Weeping Willow
  • 2008: Mountain of Rose Quartz
  • 2010: Valerie June and the Tennessee Express
  • 2013: Pushin 'Against a Stone (Sunday Best)
  • 2017: The Order of Time

Singles

  • 2012: Workin 'Woman Blues (Sunday Best)
  • 2013: You Can't Be Told (Sunday Best)
  • 2017: Astral Plane
  • 2017: Shakedown

With Bella Sun

  • 2004: No Crystal Stair (Bella Sun Music)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: CH UK US
  2. ↑ Valerie June's website, see web links
  3. ↑ a b c d Biography of Valerie June on Sundaybest.com (English)
  4. ↑ a b c Laura Barnett : One to watch: Valerie June , on Guardian.co.uk, September 30, 2012 (English)
  5. ↑ [1] www.discogs.com
  6. ^ Rüdiger Knopf: Valerie June Pushinʼ Against a Stone on Rollingstone.de, April 29, 2013
  7. ↑ James Lachno: Valerie June - New Faces on Telegraph.co.uk, February 23, 2013 (English)
  8. ↑ It's simmering with the primordial pop soup in FAZ on May 3, 2013, page 35
  9. ↑ 50 Best Albums of 2017 So Far on Rollingstone.com, June 20, 2017
  10. ↑ Valerie June and the Intersectional Protest Folk LPs Defining Nu-America on Rollingstone.com, March 8, 2017
personal data
SURNAME June, Valerie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hocket, Valerie June
BRIEF DESCRIPTION African American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Jackson , Tennessee , United States