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Artist
Annagail
12+ albums
americanapopfolk-rocksinger-songwriter
about
They’ve always defied and stretched genres, equal parts singer/songwriters and rock band. Thinking man’s Americana. Pop for philosophers? Country for the curious? Rock for the recluse? Whatever you want to call them, Grand Rapids, Michigan based, Annagail weave heartache and hope for the disillusioned. If ‘Folk-Rock’ never made sense before, it will now. “Its not uncommon for me to listen to The Cure and Steve Earl back to back…before breakfast,” Jared has said of their fluid style. 8 albums deep, a blend of courage and frailty are embraced and they’re proud of both. 2021 brought the release of two albums, ‘Home’ and “Baby, It’s You,” as the world entered the surreal advent of the pandemic. Annagail embraced the dread of the unknown and paradox of solace afforded by quarantine. From lush strings, pianos, searing guitar solos and vocals fit to weep over – to a lonely harmonica accompanied by delicate fingerpicking and accordion. Another studio album is already underway and they’re mixing a live album, recorded at the famed listening room, Seven Steps Up. While managing enough headspace to edit and produce a 40 minute mini-documentary chronicling their last decade as a band and the making of the album ‘Home’ in the midst of a pandemic, reeling from the abduction (and fortunate recovery) of their daughter, debilitating chronic illness and the icing on an already awful cake with a house fire that took their home and studio in 2016. “I can think of few bands or arti
