Miko Marks latest album is
Our Country. Throughout her career, she s deepened her connection to her ancestors while elaborating on the possibilities of all the styles that speak to her. Beto Lopez / Courtesy of the artist
In the 167 years since the Stephen Foster-penned sheet music for Hard Times Come Again No More went on the market, the parlor song has been done, and done, and done again, by performers of numerous generations and styles, long ago passing into the desensitizing familiarity of the American folk songbook. Still, the rendition that Miko Marks recorded for her third overall album, and first in more than a dozen years,
On Our Country, Miko Marks Musical Lineage Comes Full Circle
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Miko Marks, 43, released her third album, “Our Country” in March.
The virtual release party was free, and donations were encouraged to benefit The Center for Hope in Flint, Michigan where Marks grew up.
Marks told ABC 7 News that “Our Country” was about “ . . . healing, social justice, prayer, system racism, marginalization, and it’s about hope to change.”
It has been 14 years since her last album release. Her previous albums were “Freeway Bound” in 2005 and “It Feels Good” in 2007.
Marks co-wrote six of the eight songs on “Our Country”.
Her first country music memory growing up was of Loretta Lynn’s “Coal Miner’s Daughter”. She adds that Johnny Paycheck’s “Take This Job and Shove It” was her mother’s anthem.