Pushin' Against A Stone

This month's album releases reviewed by the Evening Standard's music critics

The singer and multi-instrumentalist Valerie June “was raised one hour from Memphis and two hours from Nashville,” a place…

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Pushin' Against a Stone, Valerie June's Concord debut, is the fruit of over a decade of dues paying by the native Tennessean after three self-released "bootleg" recordings.

It's always treading dangerous ground to talk about "authenticity" when it comes to any style of music. But there's a reason why artists fro...