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January 20 2017
With current album New City Blues having
landed on several critics’ Best of 2016 lists and she herself earning
spots on multiple Artists to Watch lists in 2017, Aubrie Sellers
continues to carve a non-traditional path around her unique “Garage
Country” sound with the “Little Van Sessions.”The first two videos from
this new series kicked off this week, showcasing intimate performances
of some of Sellers’ biggest influences across all genres. On Thursday, American Songwriter premiered her steel-guitar laden version of Coldplay’s “Green Eyes” and this morning, Paste Magazine shared the mesmerizing cover of Vern Gosdin’s “Till The End.”
Having toured close to 200 days in 2016, the idea to film these
inside a van was obvious. “We have spent the last couple of years
touring around the country together and spending a lot of time in some
pretty cramped quarters,” she explains. “I thought it would be cool to
extend a little piece of that, and play some of those songs that I
listen to when I'm on the road.”
More videos from the “Little Van Sessions” will continue to roll out
in the coming months, really accentuating her diverse influences and the
musicianship of her band. Meanwhile, Sellers is heading out on her
first dates of the year this weekend with The Cadillac Three and later
this month she’ll join Miranda Lambert’s 2017 Highway Vagabond Tour.
Heralded by Garden & Gun for its “brash bold sound
that’s made her one of Nashville’s most electric acts,” Sellers has
sought to blend the raw immediacy of garage rock into the classic song
structure of country. She continues to walk the razor-edged line between
punk’s combustibility and Johnny Cash’s frenetic pulse.
The Houston Post proclaimed that Sellers, “…channels a young Dolly Parton one moment, and a fiery Shania Twain the next,” while Spin wrote, “‘Sit Here & Cry’ is a fuzzed out garage rock tune that positions Sellers as country’s new tough girl.”
New City Blues is available everywhere now via Atlantic Records/Warner Music Nashville and the woman Lone Star Music calls
“a new kind of country queen: tough, strong, smart” keeps doing what
she does best: singing songs she means and playing for all its worth.”
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