Yola
If you’ve got your ear to the radio, you might have heard three new tracks from Yola in the rotation:
Diamond Studded Shoes,
Stand for Myself, the title track to her new record, dropping July 30th.
As a relative newcomer to the Nashville scene from Bristol, UK, Yola landed with a bang when her debut LP,
Walk Through Fire (2019) netted her four Grammy nominations. The record dealt with ideas of trauma, both emotional and physical: as the chorus of
Walk Through Fire goes, Yola literally had to walk through fire as she watched her house go down in flames in 2015. It’s an album that is rich and deeply soulful though a bit mournful, with its eyes on the past.