Esmé Patterson is on tour celebrating the release of her long-awaited 5th full-length album, Notes from Nowhere, a musical realm blooming with honesty and magic. Patterson’s latest release returns to the (super)natural world, evoking the chill of dead winter, parched-forest lightning, midday moons, and the cicada hum of summer swamps. Esmé’s intense performances arrest her audience in ears-open shared contemplation. Now living in the woods of Tennessee, the Colorado-born singer/songwriter never fails to give her devoted following what they want - something completely new yet somehow familiar.
The SunPunchers released their first full-length album LEVITY in 2017, with Equal Pay anthem “PAYDAY” released April 2019, expressing Americana/Desert Soul sounds that range from the dangerousintimacy to ouija board swamp séance’s. The Phoenix New Times declared the band “relentlessly soulful” and music blog YabYum wrote in their review of EP Honey that “the sound The Sunpunchers have captured is mesmerizing." We’ve been humbled and lucky enough to share the stage with Andrew Bird, Iron and Wine, Sturgill Simpson, and one of our favorite Phoenix musicians Courtney Marie Andrews to name a few; along with wonderful local musicians including but not limited to The Blood Feud Family Singers, Revizor, Haymarket Squares and Jim Bachmann.
A voice that'll stop you in your tracks, guitar licks that become fluid in her hands, and a smile so infectious, she could charm even a stone into smiling back. AJ Odneal is undiluted sweetness delivering tender messages of tentativeness, hopefulness, and the honesty of struggle in growing. If you have an opportunity to be in the room with this woman while she sings, do not pass it up. And if you can’t wait for another live performance, you can find this Phoenix-based artist on Spotify and iTunes/Apple Music and enjoy her latest single, Ghost Town.
