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Anya Hinkle is known largely for her time in the Americana bands Tellico and Dehlia Low. She made moves about two years ago to leave the safety of a band and embark on her own. With the pandemic, those moves grew into a calling.
“I really had an opportunity to perform online and work up all these solo shows because I had to,” she said. “I just had that space and that pause button to naturally grow into becoming a singer-songwriter. That pause button gave me the confidence in those songs, in those lyrics, in the vocals, feeling like that’s enough, without a whole band behind you backing you up.”
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Anya Hinkle effortlessly delivers conversationalist country blues on her new single, “Why Women Need Wine”. A burgeoning force behind the Appalachian roots revival, Hinkle has written and performed with the likes of Dehlia Low and Tellico and is now crafting her full-length solo debut. Due later this year, the album encompasses the singer-songwriter’s talent for crafting earthen Americana rooted in the Virginia mountains where she was raised.