​Valerie June (from the album Owls, Omens, and Oracles

​Valerie June (from the album Owls, Omens, and Oracles

​Valerie June (from the album Owls, Omens, and Oracles available on June Tunes Music/Concord)
A sense of mystical magic surrounds Valerie June. Her persona and her music are inseparable. On her recent release, Owls, Omens, and Oracles she dons the mantle of a Medicine Woman when the album banishes skepticism and doom scrolling with its optimistic outlook. Armed with pen and paper, laughter and truth, Valerie June opens the album on a rumble of rhythm as she points out ‘there is a light you find if you stop to take the time’ among other kernels of wisdom collected in “Joy, Joy”. She layers on the good that is within reach as she counsels to ‘find joy, joy in your soul’. A heartbeat welcomes a DIY guide to counter the ever-present conflict seeking to keep us distracted in “Endless Tree”. The story offers encouragement and suggests that we need to take action after listening to sage advice, ‘a world where we can be free as branches of an endless tree…and may you seek and find it, and though we may not all agree, still live together peacefully’.  Sensing a theme? Valerie June offers a salve for modern times with grace and poise. A loving teacher who delivers options in words and music. 
 
Produced by M. Ward, Owls, Omens, and Oracles sends a powerful message cradled in gentle rhythms with “Love and Let Go” as Valerie June admits “My Life is a Country Song”, walks across a chorus of beats to hammer in the truisms of “Superpower”, and lets the sonics come back to easy guitar plucking complemented by the power in her voice for “Missin’ You (Yeah Yeah)”. The divide between performer and audience is erased as Valerie June supports our journey, and advises to “Trust the Path” as she pushes us out of the nest with her own experiences, assuring that her steps can become ours. The ambient sound of nature is the bed that she uses to speak her words in the acapella harmonies of “Calling My Spirit” as Valerie June is joined by The Blind Boys of Alabama for the funky groove of “Changed”.
 
Valerie June will be the subject of a new exhibit opening at the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, Tennessee. Her exhibit feature artifacts such as instruments, clothing, published works, and other items from her storied career. The unveiling will take place on Saturday, April 26, at 12:30pm CT. Valerie June will be at th3 exhibit in person to discuss her new album as well as providing a guided meditation and reading. The event will be livestreamed globally. More details at NMAAM website. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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