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June Star @ June Star @ Sirens<\/h2>\n\n

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Baltimore Maryland’s June Star (Andrew Grimm and Dave Hadley), with aching vocals and plaintive folk arrangements, comes off like a Smog-era Bill Callahan if he had chosen to dive inward or The Jayhawks if they were more keen to stark emotional realism. Grimm’s rich baritone voice and Hadley’s atmospheric, elegiac pedal steel  brings a time-honored aesthetic to their unique tales of fractious love and quixotic anxiety. June Star has performed in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC and West Virginia. https://www.junestar.com/

“While band members have come and gone over the years, Grimm has consistently remained authentic and faithful to his muse. With the help of pedal steel maestro, Dave Hadley, June Star has conjured a stripped-down, acoustic based EP that summons answers to some of life’s toughest lessons, deftly and passionately wrapped in plaintive, exacting songs about waking up one day and not knowing just how long you’ve been there and when you “arrived.”
With aching vocals and wistful arrangements, Arrival begs an audience of naked emotion with a level of confidence that could only sit in the hands of a seasoned writer and performer like Andrew Grimm. Armed with a voice that whispers in your ear –  seductive, secretive and confessional. Combined with Hadley’s atmospheric steel, spinning unique tales of unmanageable love, modern anxiety, growing older, and dark optimism in the face of tragedy, Arrival delivers the listener to it’s desired destination without any unscheduled stops or layovers. The time for those distractions, is well and truly over.” Rocking Magpie
 
“June Star is that band you won’t believe you’re just now hearing about.  With a bulls-eye Americana style, thoughtful lyrics, brilliant guitar, and the most gentle heartfelt harmonies you’ve ever heard, you’re sure to put June Star on repeat. They’ll make you cry the best cathartic tears.  Dig through the back catalogue, and plan to go see them in the new fangled distancing era.” Americana Highways
 
 
\"...my review of the show? So good. Just guitar, vocals, pedal steel/steel guitar, and \"songs about love.\" his voice is so distinctive. strong, rich, nasally, nuanced. shades of one of my favorite voices, Richard Buckner, but uniquely his own. his lyrics hint of an English Literature professor but in the very very best of ways. layered, twisty, often veiled just enough to make you think or wonder. At one point in the show, he spoke of how from 1985 until 2006 all he listened to was Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. (*maybe, we could ask him to write an AOTW feature. seriously. Clams, send him an e-mail) he played \"Romeo had Juliet\" (bleep) then he played \"Waitin For My Man\" and said it was what it would sound like if Lou Reed and Jimmie Rodgers had a baby. this was GENIUS.\"  Three Dimes Down (Chicago, Illinois)<\/div>\n\n

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