KELLY HUNT & SARA MORGAN (Americana/Country/Folk)
After more than a decade of flying solo, KELLY HUNT, the poetic folksinger from Memphis, Tennessee, and SARA MORGAN, the loud-mouthed country songwriter from McGehee, Arkansas, are taking flight together. With vintage Gibson guitars in hand, Kelly and Sara sing like sisters, swapping harmony and lead vocals with ease.
ABOUT KELLY:
Memphis-raised singer-songwriter, Kelly Hunt, reimagines traditions of folk & old-time music with innovative vigor. Interweaving poetic lyrics, lilting melodies, and intriguing arrangements, Hunt casts a spell which NO DEPRESSION describes as “the musical equivalent of a book you can’t put down, one you’ll want to revisit again and again to catch every nuance and turn of phrase.”
“Kelly Hunt sings with the lilting cadence of a folksinger born somewhere far away, sometime long ago.” — ROBERT CRAWFORD [ROLLING STONE COUNTRY]
“Standing shoulder to shoulder with contemporaries like Gillian Welch and Rhiannon Giddens...folk music harking back to the stripped-down sounds of Leadbelly, Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie.” — JOHN VAITES [AMERICANA UK]
ABOUT SARA:
In a style reminiscent of Dolly Parton, Kathy Mattea, and Nanci Griffith, singer/songwriter Sara Morgan writes and performs poignant, thoughtful, and hilarious tunes which cast back to the timeless country tradition of the second half of the 20th century. Her themes of love, loss, courage, introspection, and irony are a drastic contrast to the current pop-influenced / cross-genre / multi-writer Country Music found on the market today.
“The one to watch” - JOSPEH HUDAK [Rolling Stone]
“Sara Morgan [...] brings a freshness to country music that hasn’t been there since the debut of Reba, Shania Twain and Carrie Underwood.” - ROBERT LEGGETT [LA Music Critic]
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