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ZZ Ward didn t should look far for inspiration on her second full-size album, 2017 s The Storm. Equally evocative of blues grit and hip-hop bounce, the Los Angeles-based mostly vocal powerhouse and multi-instrumentalist leapt ahead by taking a deeper take a look at a few of her earliest inspirations together with Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, and Vera Ward Hall and Big Mama Thornton.
For me, this album wasn t actually about experimenting, she admits. It was extra about simplicity, honing in on what I love about music and what makes me who I am as an artist. Growing up, I listened to a number of hip-hop and blues, and I love these two genres a lot. Sometimes, to evolve you don t have to go outdoors of your self; you possibly can attain additional inside your self as an alternative.
It s a realization earned over a whirlwind 5 years. The Fedora-rocking, guitar-shredding, harmonica-wielding blues siren peppered an previous backporch musical recipe with hip-hop urgency and hashtaggable knowledge on her 2012 mixtape Eleven Roses. Followed by her full-size debut Til The Casket Drops yielded a veritable hit within the type of Put The Gun Down. The latter generated S.A million-plus Spotify streams and held robust within the Top 10 of AAA radio for 10 weeks in addition to receiving over one hundred excessive-profile licensing placements and syncs, together with the function movie We re The Millers. Kendrick Lamar [ Cryin Wolf ] and Freddie Gibbs [ Criminal ] have been fast to collaborate, whereas Rolling Stone, Guitar World, Elle, Interview Magazine, USA Today, NPR and extra extolled her. She lit up the display on Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!, Conan, Good Morning America, The Tonight Show, The View, and lots of others and virtually set levels ablaze on excursions with Eric Clapton, Gary Clark, Jr., and Fitz & The Tantrums and at Coachella, Bonnaroo, Firefly, and Made In America.
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