Po' Girl
Dusty, urban roots music that feels like a slow train ride through the Canadian wilderness. Intimate harmonies meet jazz-inflected folk for a quiet, traveling soul.
Dusty, urban roots music that feels like a slow train ride through the Canadian wilderness. Intimate harmonies meet jazz-inflected folk for a quiet, traveling soul.
Po' Girl sounds like the intersection of a smoky 1920s jazz club and a back-porch folk jam. Their music is defined by a warm, woody resonance where banjos and clarinets weave around one another in a way that feels both ancient and modern. It is 'urban roots' music: sophisticated in its arrangements but grounded in the grit and honesty of traditional storytelling.
What makes them truly distinctive is the vocal chemistry between the members, particularly the way their harmonies feel like a shared secret. They incorporate unusual instrumentation like the gutbucket bass and accordion, giving their songs a slight vaudevillian edge without ever losing their emotional sincerity. It is music for the itinerant heart, obsessed with the themes of movement, home, and the spaces in between.
Start with 'Home to You' to hear the band at their most cohesive. It perfectly captures their ability to blend melancholic songwriting with a rhythmic, almost playful instrumental backing that keeps the listener moving forward even when the lyrics look back.
Po' Girl is a Canadian music group whose style derives from folk, country, and jazz. The band evolved from a series of jam sessions, in 2000, between Trish Klein of The Be Good Tanyas and Allison Russell, then of Fear of Drinking. The two met up again in 2003 and named themselves Po' Girl. Klein said at the time that the new group offered her the opportunity to write and perform her own songs. Po' Girl recorded their last album in 2010, but the members' musical careers have continued to develop, either as soloists or in other bands. Once based in Vancouver, Po' Girl is now back in the Eastern cities of Toronto and Montreal. The current band lineup is Allison Russell (singer/multi-instrumentalist), Awna Teixeira (singer/multi-instrumentalist), Benny Sidelinger (multi-instrumentalist), and Mikey "Lightning" August.
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Shares americana, folk rock, indie folk, tender (signature)
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