Fresh off of a successful SXSW, Anna Vogelzang – the multi-instrumentalist, producer and songstress -- will be performing tracks from her latest release, Driftless, on Friday, April 10th at Viracocha.
Of Vogelzang, Blackbook raves, “every now and again, a folk-pop artist emerges with a universally warming sound that takes over the airwaves and attracts everyone from tweens to full blown adults, using smart and often G-rated lyrics over heartening melodies.”
The six tracks that make up Driftless find Vogelzang
The EP kicks off with Amarillo, an upbeat but lyrically dark song that Vogelzang describes as “a friend break-up song” and segues into Mercy – a spirited and driving track about family that was written as part of the Real Women, Real Songs project challenging artists to write one song a week for the calendar year of 2014.
Next up is Vanguard, co-written with Amanda Rigell of Count This Penny. The two songwriting friends also wrote this track for the Real Women, Real Songs project. Vogelzang explains, “Amanda already had a completely in-tact chorus that she brought to the table, and together we wrote the verses around it. There are some beautiful lyrical choices that came from tossing words back and forth to each other, which feels like the truest and most fulfilling kind of co-write — words I never would have chosen alone, but words that really bloom within the song and create some gorgeous, heartbreaking images.”
Rounding out the EP are Lion, a cathartic song born out of a frustration with life circumstances, Kay - a slower paced, doo-wop song that finds Vogelzang writing from the perspective of her grandmother, and finishes with the triumphant Why Not. Of the final track,Vogelzang says, “it’s a song about constantly walking in circles, trying to forget the things you can’t hold on to, and feeling lost in your own skin. It’s also about being stuck in those circles, reveling somehow in the negativity. It’s the inner struggle between wanting to pull yourself up out of the din, and just letting yourself sink into it. This was the song that grew the most in the studio. Shane really wove textures into it that allowed it to breathe on its own. As he described it, he wanted the listener to feel like they were diving into a pool at the second verse, and suddenly were underwater.”
Anna Vogelzang is currently on tour making stops in Santa Fe, Sedona, Prescott, St. George, LA, SF, Cottage Grove, OR and Long Beach, WA.
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Who: Anna Vogelzang
What: Live Performance at Viracocha
When: Friday, April 10th at 8 PM
Tickets: $10-$20 - purchase here: http://viracochasf.com/
