Spotlight On: COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS

ABOUT THIS WEEK’S SHERO IN THE SPOTLIGHT:

Our guest this week really reminded me of the importance of personal stories. It's like learning a recipe for a favorite dish. Once you know the ingredients, you begin to understand how the flavors all work together, and at least for me, that deepens the experience of how it tastes. A hint of this here, a strong presence of that there, and then, the new flavors that can only happen by blending things together. Now, I'm not sure if that analogy works for you right now, but once you hear this conversation, I believe it will. Phoenix, Arizona-born Courtney Marie Andrews has become known as a singer-songwriter and guitarist that lands somewhere within the folk-Americana spectrum, especially her last three albums, 2016’s Honest Life, May Your Kindness Remain from 2018, and 2020’s Old Flowers, which earned a GRAMMY nomination for Best Americana Album. But, the folk-Americana genre was not the first, or even the main ingredient in Courtney’s musical evolution, and that’s saying nothing of her personal journey, rooted in her extremely independent childhood and early feminism, and her continued uncompromising commitment to her art. Her brilliant new album Loose Future is the most fully realized synthesis of that journey to date, and Courtney Marie Andrews joins us as this week’s SHERO In The Spotlight.

Our playlist includes new music from Alvvays and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

SHERO BIRTHDAYS: We celebrate the birthdays of SHEROES Grace Slick on 10/30, k.d. lang on 11/2, and Courtney Barnett on 11/3.

This week’s Radio SHERO: Dori Zori of Radio Milwaukee joins us as this week’s Radio SHERO, sharing “Atopos” from Björk.