{"id":12336,"date":"2019-07-11T00:45:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T05:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=12336"},"modified":"2023-09-03T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:19:07","slug":"miss-michaela-anne-debuts-new-single-announces-new-album-and-tour-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=12336","title":{"rendered":"Miss Michaela Anne Debuts New Single, Announces New Album And Tour Dates."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michaela Anne Drops \u201cChild of the Wind\u201d via Brooklyn Vegan<\/div>\n
New Tour Dates Announced<\/div>\n
Desert Dove to release September 27th on Yep Roc Records<\/div>\n
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July 9, 2019 \u2013 Nashville, TN \u2013 Michaela Anne is proud to debut \u201cChild of the Wind\u201d, which exclusively premiered today via Brooklyn Vegan, who dubbed the track \u201ca catchy, breezy dose of modern country.\u201d You can listen here<\/a>. The single is the newest from her upcoming album Desert Dove, out September 27th on Yep Roc Records. In June, Anne released the first single from the record, \u201cBy Our Design\u201d, which premiered on <\/a>Rolling Stone<\/a>. In addition to playing notable festivals like Wisconsin\u2019s Mile of Music and Nashville\u2019s long-running AmericanaFest, Michaela Anne announced new East coast dates today for her fall tour. Pre-order Desert Dove here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Recorded over the course of several weeks in San Clemente, California, Desert Dove was completed \u201con location\u201d with the help of an all-star cast. Producers Sam Outlaw and Delta Spirit\u2019s Kelly Winrich assembled guitarist Brian Whelan (Dwight Yoakam, Jim Lauderdale), fiddler Kristin Weber (Kacey Musgraves, Margo Price), and drummers Mark Stepro (Ben Kweller, Butch Walker) and Daniel Bailey (Everest, Father John Misty) to address this batch of songs with a fresh take, not leaning too hard on traditional arrangements or instrumentation. \u201cChild of the Wind\u201d is a great example of this; using a chunky, fuzzy electric guitar in place of what could have been a pedal steel or fiddle intro, adding sonic and tonal variables to the breadth of Michaela Anne\u2019s range of characters and motifs.<\/div>\n
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Amidst the ups and downs of Desert Dove, there is a recurring focus on the emotions that fall in between peaks and valleys. \u201cThis record, for me, highlights the gray area, the nuance of emotional life and relationships that seems to be harder to convey in today\u2019s modes of communication and limited attention spans: short excerpts on Instagram or Twitter paragraphs,\u201d says Michaela Anne. \u201cNothing is black and white, solely good or bad. Who we are, how we live, how we love, what we desire or reject, it\u2019s all full of contradictions and confusions. I wanted to explore that through my songs with care, depth, reality as well as light-heartedness, fun and fantasy.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Michaela Anne also attacks most of the album with a sharp feminine perspective, dealing out wisdom, confidence, and sass with authority and maturity that is never tiresome. The easiest example of this is Michaela Anne\u2019s light-hearted rebuttal to condescension and \u201cmansplaining\u201d with \u201cIf I Wanted Your Opinion,\u201d but her stance drives deeper with each new song, all the way through the end of Desert Dove. \u201cWhen I got to Nashville, I was told the \u2018rules\u2019 of songwriting,\u201d Michaela recounts. \u201cI was informed that a woman in a country song can never be the victim, but she can also never be the perpetrator. That\u2019s not real life. As a woman, sometimes you\u2019re everything all at once, and I wanted to write about those real experiences.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Desert Dove is Michaela Anne\u2019s full-length follow up to her critically-acclaimed 2016 release Bright Lights and the Fame, which garnered praise from NPR, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, and Noisey, who celebrated her as the antidote to commercial pop-country, calling her \u201cour saving grace, our angel, the person who will help usher us into a new age.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Desert Dove is also Michaela Anne\u2019s first release as a new signee to Yep Roc Records. North Carolina-based Yep Roc announced their partnership with Michaela Anne on May 16th of this year, making her label mates with the likes of Mandolin Orange, Jim Lauderdale, Aoife O\u2019Donovan, Chatham County Line, The Felice Brothers, Amy Helm, Tift Merritt, and Kim Richey. Billy Maupin, Yep Roc\u2019s General Manager, says of the signing, \u201cWe are ecstatic that Michaela Anne is now part of the Yep Roc family. Her new album showcases her as a triple threat of singer, songwriter, and performer. We are excited to be part of the release.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Michaela Anne on Tour:<\/div>\n
August 1-2 \u2013 Appleton, WI \u2013 Mile of Music<\/div>\n
September 10-15 \u2013 Nashville, TN \u2013 AmericanaFest<\/div>\n
October 10 \u2013 Decatur, GA \u2013 Eddie’s Attic<\/div>\n
October 11 \u2013 Raleigh, NC \u2013 Kings<\/div>\n
October 13 \u2013 Charlotte, NC \u2013 Evening Muse<\/div>\n
October 16 \u2013 New York, NY \u2013 Mercury Lounge<\/div>\n
October 18 \u2013 Lowell, MA \u2013 The Town and The City Festival<\/div>\n
October 19 \u2013 Saugerties, NY \u2013 Hangin’ and Sangin’<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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More About Michaela Anne:<\/div>\n
Michaela\u2019s writing first began garnering national attention with the 2014 release of Ease My Mind, an old-school collection hailed by The New York Times for its \u201cplain-spoken songs of romantic regret and small-town longing\u201d and named one of the year\u2019s best country albums by The Village Voice. After a move from Brooklyn to Nashville, Michaela followed it up in 2016 with the similarly lauded Bright Lights and the Fame, which featured guest appearances by Rodney Crowell and Punch Brother Noam Pikelny. Rolling Stone compared her to Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, and Noisey praised her as the antidote to commercial pop country, calling her \u201cour saving grace, our angel, the person who will help usher us into a new age.\u201d Songs from the record landed on high profile Spotify playlists as well as the HBOseries \u2018Divorce,\u2019 and the album earned Michaela slots at Bristol Rhythm & Roots, Merlefest, and both the US and UK iterations of AmericanaFest, along with a seemingly endless series of dates across the States and Europe with the likes of Mandolin Orange, Courtney Marie Andrews, Joe Pug, Ron Pope, and Sam Outlaw.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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About Yep Roc Records:<\/div>\n
Founded by Glenn Dicker and Tor Hansen in 1997, Yep Roc Records is based in Hillsborough, NC and calls itself \u201cthe artist-driven label that refuses to be labeled.\u201d With a strong belief in the vision of each of its artists, Yep Roc Records strives to serve each project based on its unique characteristics. Over 20 years, the label has released albums from North Carolina and international artists, including Aoife O\u2019Donovan, Mandolin Orange, Tift Merritt, Chatham County Line, Dave Alvin, Los Straitjackets, Nick Lowe, and Robyn Hitchcock. The label is exclusively distributed by Redeye.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michaela Anne Drops \u201cChild of the Wind\u201d via Brooklyn Vegan New Tour Dates Announced Desert Dove to release September 27th on Yep Roc Records July 9, 2019 \u2013 Nashville, TN \u2013 Michaela Anne is proud to debut \u201cChild of the Wind\u201d, which exclusively premiered today via Brooklyn Vegan, who dubbed the track \u201ca catchy, breezy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t