Spotlight On: H.C. McENTIRE

ABOUT THIS WEEK’S SHERO IN THE SPOTLIGHT:

I might be stating the obvious here, but it has been dawning on me lately that launching SHEROES during the pandemic has added an additional unique ingredient to the interviews we share with you each week. The albums made over the last three years are a mirror to the emotional landscapes of the artists’ experiences of isolation, political and societal upheaval and protest, adjusting to new norms and realities of touring, and not touring. As sensitive as artists are, the emotional weight of these things, and the vast range of internal and personal journeys they’ve been on, is pervasive in their work. Common themes have emerged; home and its meaning has been a huge one for all of us. And, on H.C. McEntire’s new album Every Acre, she tunes us into an even deeper exploration of what home and ownership mean, the relationships they represent, loss and love, and questioning how it all connects with living on what were once native lands. Growing up as a queer woman in the Blue Ridge Foothills of rural Appalachia, singer-songwriter and poet H.C. McEntire has long written about what it means to live in the south, religion, and spirituality in her years fronting the band Mount Moriah, and this continued in her solo debut, 2018’s critically hailed Lionheart, moving closer to home in 2020’s Eno Axis, and now she somehow zooms back out, and closer than ever inward on her brilliant third solo album, Every Acre, which was just released in January. I am thrilled to welcome H.C. McEntire as this week’s SHERO In The Spotlight.

SHERO BIRTHDAYS: We celebrate the birthdays of SHEROES Melanie on 2/3, Marge and Mary Ann Ganser of Shangri-Las on 2/4, and Carole King on 2/9.

This week’s Radio SHERO: Mel Fisher, morning host at WFPK in Louisville, KY, joins us this week, spinning the track “Get it Got it” from Adi Oasis.