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Post to Wire shares Michelle Billingsley’s new music video for “Portia”

michelle billingsley music portia not the marrying kind americana folk alt country singer songwriter chicago baby robot media music publicity PR post to wireMichelle Billingsley has just released two new singles, the first of which is ‘Portia’, a song of which she says “Portia’s an everywoman. Actually, she’s my front. This song is about my most private insecurities, so it felt freer to package them up as someone else.” The song drifts and slow-dances along on a lilting melody—a touch of Emmylou about the sound of her voice. Musically it’s a perfect blend of old-timey country and soft shuffle. READ MORE…

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B-Sides & Badlands offers an exclusive preview of the new title track from David Burchfield’s forthcoming album State to State

David Burchfield singer songwriter americana folk indie baby robot media music publicity pr press state by stateSometimes, we burn through memories and experiences like we’re stoking a campfire. Other times, we tuck away those that mean more to us in brown paper packages for safe keeping. Indie-folk storyteller David Burchfield places his new song “State to State,” premiering at B-Sides & Badlands, firmly in the latter thematic box. “The way across the way / From state to state / This one that I / Keep close to me,” he lugs around the intangible ghosts and physical mementos, his knapsack brimming with the past. READ MORE…

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Americana UK spotlights the ‘biting wit’ of Michelle Billingsley’s new single ‘Gaslighting’

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After years of singing Michelle Billingsley found that she had something to say. It was, she recalls, an epiphany that came direct from frustration “I remember walking down the street because the CTA rush hour buses come every 25 minutes, I was thinking about how hard it was to find something to sing in my range, and then this bubble burst in my head and I thought, ‘I can write songs and say whatever I want.’ ” And thus was her first album Not the Marrying Kind born – it’s out on June 12th on Western Myth Records.
 
The subjects of her songs are diverse – but she approaches them with a biting wit, which today’s premiere exemplifies. It’s something of a grandchild of ‘Seven Drunken Nights’ as, through a series of good and reasonable explanations Michelle Billingsley patiently explains to her partner how the things he is seeing are not what he thinks they are: “I did nothing wrong love I did nothing wrong / Well what you thought was his hand down my dress / It was innocent I swear, hey listen to this / His watch got caught in the loop of my belt / So you see Hun’ he was just trying to help.” It’s all in a tongue-in cheek gently honky-tonkin’ spirit. READ MORE…

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The Wild Honey Pie features new single, “Honeysuckles,” from Margaret Chavez on Buzzing Daily, calling it “a dark folk masterpiece.”

“Honeysuckles” is a dark folk masterpiece in balance from Austin-based Margaret Chavez (Marcus Striplin). The track opens with hypnotic guitar arpeggiations that draw you in like waving wildflowers drawing honeybees. Then come the lyrics, which paint vignettes of tragedy that seem initially at odds with the cheerful guitar melody. As the song progresses, the track unfolds into a retrospective of loss and love. 

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