Michelle Malone

Michelle Malone is a lifer. She's been a mainstay of American roots music for more than 30 years, building her community onstage and off, mixing roadhouse rock & roll with blues, folk, and country-soul. It's a sound that's taken the award-winning songwriter around the world, but it's inspired by Malone's home in the South, too. After more than a dozen studio albums, she continues flying a flag for Georgia — a state with its own ever-evolving sound — on Southern Comfort.

"I'm very much a southerner," says Malone, who co-produced the album with Paul Warner. “This whole record was written, recorded, and performed by southerners, and you can hear it. There's rock, country, and folk here. There's swagger. Southern Comfort isn't about booze; it's about a feeling, a family, a familiarity — all the things that make you feel warm and fuzzy. For me, that's Georgia.”