I never comment on videos, but I played a music festival last night, and Valerie June was next up after us. I have no words. Okay, I do: love, light, grace, joy. She held the audience in her hand, and hugged each and every one with her voice. New fan for life.
I remember when this sweet girl came into the coffee shop I was assistant manager at (while putting myself thru college). She was 16 & had just left home (MS). We worked together for about 2 years & I saw her off and on after that. During all that time I heard her sing at small gigs & whoever’s house we were hanging out at. Her voice brought me to tears more than a couple of times. I knew she’d go far…I love that she’s getting the respect & admiration she deserves.❤
Thank you writers of P-Valley (S2:E6 -Savage) for introducing Valerie June to an audience of viewers who may not otherwise may have known her music, her voice, her style. Fan for life.
Shes taking me back, back. I did a final in college 18 years ago on how hymnals, gospel, country, and blues were are connected and she sounds EERILY similar to field hymnals that African Americans used to sing during slavery while working in the fields.
I've got the working man's blues right now but this is putting a smile on my face... hell, this is so good I just might even do a rain dance and find somebody to love today. Thanks NPR and Val.
I just wonder what Dolly Parton would say (or do) if she heard this woman's songs and her singing them. How could she not love the sound--the soul--the energy and life a lot like Dolly grew up in. I know all about that tiny, rural life.
In an interview posted on his website, Bob Dylan said he’d been listening to June, whose latest album, The Order of Time, is a blend of spacey hippie soul, blues and folk with June’s pinched, modern-Appalachian voice at the center. “I lost it,” June says of the Dylan shout-out.
Devin Baur I first discovered Valerie June in 2013, I love her sound and voice so much. I feel like she does not get the credit, nor the exposure, in mainstream music that she deserves.
Ive been enjoying the CZcams videos, and purchased her music so I can be supportive, and sing with her and have fun without embarrassing myself or anyone else. ha ha She's awesome. Love her!
This my first time listening valerie june. I have to say at the beginning of the song "Somebody To Love" I got tears in my eyes. Her voice is so so gentle, yet so strong. I love it when someone can touch your ears, brain, heart & soul with their voice. :)
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Did some of you forget this piece of wisdom? She is beautiful, original, and humble. 2 thumbs up for Valerie June.
I've seen mostly positive comments though. Really like her voice, as you said, original. Makes me think of something like Hell or High Water soundtrack. Awesome.
+beenn15 She didn't SAY it was "pretty".. she said she loved it. YOU may only love stuff that's PRETTY, but many of us love stuff that is striking, or unique, or majestic, or outrageous or any number of things that aren't "PRETTY" You know, like loving a rock song or the smell of a campfire.
I feel like im listening to Joan Osborns ''what if God was one of us'' mixed with tracy chapmans ''fast car'' with a total 1930s porch sitting feel.I cant explain it but she is incredible! She is so different. Can we please have more of this!
This wonderful woman's music found itself on UK TV! I was so shocked to hear her but I'm very proud. Her music is amazing and she deserves so much credit.
So the 2nd song Rain Dance totally works... I cried, cried, cried sitting in my big city apartment so far from (like Dolly) my Tennessee Mountain home.
this chick is counnntry, at times she sounds like a cartoon character mockn country music..but I couldn't stop listening because she's so unique..she play the hell out that guitar!! But when started playing the banjo, I envisioned her sitting on the porch singing as the sun goes down 😀👏👏👏
Her singing voice is admittedly an acquired taste, but I absolutely love listening to her speak. If sweet tea were a person, its voice would sound like Valerie June.
listening to her on Hardly Strictly Bluegrass right now - that voice, you're so right - HOOKED! Diggin her guitar style, tone, etc. Thanks for sharing this Tiny Desk Concert!!
Still amazes me how rotten people can be on social media. You just have to wonder why a person is compelled to state their negative opinion. You'd think they would just move on if an artist doesn't appeal to their taste. Btw, keep playing your songs in your own special way beautiful lady🌷
THIS IS HOW GOD INTENDED HER TO WRITE HER MUSIC AND SING IT FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF ALL. THOSE COMPLAINING ARE SPOILT BY TOO MUCH COMMERCIAL MUSIC, RECORD SALES AND THE CHARTS.
I absolutely love her. It took a couple listens to get used to her voice but now i can't stop listening to her. And i get to see her in concert in a month.
I know I've seen Valerie June somewhere else - I watch a lot of music videos so I cannot recall; Love her voice: the tone, inflections - close my eyes & I am transported to 1930s
I came here from her current Ted Talk and I would love to see a second Tiny Desk. She hooked me with Love You Once Made, and now Astral Plane is my inner Artist's Mantra.
She's cool! I love her tone! As a musician/singer, I've been trying to expand my listening library and delve deeper into other styles of music, and I have been scouring CZcams to find some new people to listen to, and what are the odds that I run across this?! Lol. Amazing! Thanks NPR Music. :-)
Yes......her voice is an aquired taste but I dig it......I like to her sisters singing various genres of music. And she can play that guitar. What a beauty
Compared to what's hot on the radio now, people are going to come and listen to this and go what's this? Music? Instruments? No auto-tunes on her voice?
4mydearlady I don't care for her whiny voice. especially the song about climbing through the stratosphere. that's what I feel people won't like. there is no range or change in her voice throughout her songs, and the lyrics aren't catchy.
Nick Golden I grow up listening to music from the 60-70s, and do not care for artists who can't match the sound of their albums. I this case I just don't like this artist voice.
Nick Golden, after listening to several of VJ's videos, I agree with Aaron. Her voice is thin and reedy, it has no range. There's a difference between a talented voice, and one that's been engineered. If you want to hear talent, listen to Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, or Linda Ronstadt, or even Jessie Mae Hemphill. I realize I've thrown a lot of names at you, but this is merely a shallow scratching at the surface. Dig in and expand your horizon .
A few names, none of which I'd disagree with, but I think you are narrow. This is an extraordinary voice doing amazing things. Sad for you that you can't hear it. Shallow listening I' d say. Dig in and expand your horizon.
Fantastic. Reminds me of Tracy Chapman, who I saw years ago. I have watched a number of Valerie's videos and this is just terrific. I think Valerie sounds best when she just accompanies herself on guitar or banjo. I think a full band just hides her gifted voices. These are perfect. Thanks so much.
Thanks to NPR's Tiny Desk series and Bob Boilen for constantly bringing new (to me) artists to my attention. Ms. June's music is so unique that the chances of hearing her music on commercial radio is very slim. I can't wait to hear what she produces in the future.
I never comment on videos, but I played a music festival last night, and Valerie June was next up after us. I have no words. Okay, I do: love, light, grace, joy. She held the audience in her hand, and hugged each and every one with her voice. New fan for life.
She is amazing! I want to see her live so badly...
@@twebster179 this Covid has to end. I need to see her also
Gonna see her at the Mill Valley Music Festival in May
I remember when this sweet girl came into the coffee shop I was assistant manager at (while putting myself thru college). She was 16 & had just left home (MS). We worked together for about 2 years & I saw her off and on after that. During all that time I heard her sing at small gigs & whoever’s house we were hanging out at. Her voice brought me to tears more than a couple of times. I knew she’d go far…I love that she’s getting the respect & admiration she deserves.❤
I cry every time on that last track, and I have watched this often in the last 10 years.
I could watch her for hours. she is something so rare and genuine and lovely.
Thank you writers of P-Valley (S2:E6 -Savage) for introducing Valerie June
to an audience of viewers who may not otherwise may have known her music, her voice, her style. Fan for life.
Exactly!!! She is brilliant an unique. She should be a big star.
How she went under my radar for so many years I'll never know. Now I'll never forget. Thanks Val
Not only is she incredibly talented, her personal style is rad!
It hasn't been since Tracy Chapman, that I've enjoyed a folk artist so much. Thank you for sharing your talent.
I swear you took the words out of my mouth.
She's kind of like a mix between Chapman and Macy Gray. The mix of bluegrass and soul in her music is such a joy to listen to!
@Marcy Wells Leyla McCalla is very good.
I do love her but put Rhinnan Giddens in there
Yes.
Tiny Desk has grown to the age that it has classics. This concert of Valerie June for sure is one of these classics!
truth be told
To be fair
Shes taking me back, back. I did a final in college 18 years ago on how hymnals, gospel, country, and blues were are connected and she sounds EERILY similar to field hymnals that African Americans used to sing during slavery while working in the fields.
Somebody To Love just about breaks your heart....and she gives 100% of herself. Thank you Ms June.
I've got the working man's blues right now but this is putting a smile on my face... hell, this is so good I just might even do a rain dance and find somebody to love today. Thanks NPR and Val.
This is some of the best 10 minutes a human can spend watching something.
And the look she gives to someone at 3:25 makes me believe in God.
love this old root sound. Great to hear a young artist pull from that tradition and bring it into this fast moving high tech world.
I'm in love. Takes me back to the beautiful time before I was born, and to places I've never been.
I just wonder what Dolly Parton would say (or do) if she heard this woman's songs and her singing them. How could she not love the sound--the soul--the energy and life a lot like Dolly grew up in. I know all about that tiny, rural life.
In an interview posted on his website, Bob Dylan said he’d been listening to June, whose latest album, The Order of Time, is a blend of spacey hippie soul, blues and folk with June’s pinched, modern-Appalachian voice at the center. “I lost it,” June says of the Dylan shout-out.
Devin Baur I first discovered Valerie June in 2013, I love her sound and voice so much. I feel like she does not get the credit, nor the exposure, in mainstream music that she deserves.
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I'm completely with you. She's quite a new discovery for me but I think she's fantastic.
Shes got an old soul....and a sweet, sweet heart.
Listened to this 2 years ago and my feelings haven't changed. This is one of my favorites.
STANDING OVATION. She is amazing.
I love her voice and I'm mostly mainstream hip hop R&B fan but there's something so organic and simple about her voice I think it's beautiful.
Such a voice: unique, authentic, southern and a bee charmer for sure.
I just fell in love with a voice on Spotify, then came to put a face with that voice. Now I’m head over heals.
Ive been enjoying the CZcams videos, and purchased her music so I can be supportive, and sing with her and have fun without embarrassing myself or anyone else. ha ha She's awesome. Love her!
This my first time listening valerie june. I have to say at the beginning of the song "Somebody To Love" I got tears in my eyes. Her voice is so so gentle, yet so strong. I love it when someone can touch your ears, brain, heart & soul with their voice. :)
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
Did some of you forget this piece of wisdom?
She is beautiful, original, and humble.
2 thumbs up for Valerie June.
I've seen mostly positive comments though. Really like her voice, as you said, original. Makes me think of something like Hell or High Water soundtrack. Awesome.
i've seen her twice,she's the BOMB!!!! her cds as well as the wandering are worth having....simply supreme!!!
I come here when I need inspiration ‼️Thank you Valerie June 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾🦋🦋🦋🦋
I love her hair, her music, her voice, her soul
+Angel N Scott Ain't nothing pretty 'bout the hair
+beenn15 She didn't SAY it was "pretty".. she said she loved it. YOU may only love stuff that's PRETTY, but many of us love stuff that is striking, or unique, or majestic, or outrageous or any number of things that aren't "PRETTY" You know, like loving a rock song or the smell of a campfire.
+beenn15 We aren't all interested only in pretty things, princess.
Pretty is subjective. It's gorgeous to me
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, she is gorgeous. Her hair is gorgeous. I love her display of black pride she is magical
That last song really touched me; got me tearing up like a baby.
The rhythm of her guitar in the fist song is crazy! Awesome!
I love Valerie June’s music, and that she’s true to herself. (Just as Shakespeare wrote, “To thine own self be true.”)
I love that she doesn’t need anyone to help her perform
I don´t used to comment, but thanks NPR and Valerie June for amazing feelings about time and music.
I feel like im listening to Joan Osborns ''what if God was one of us'' mixed with tracy chapmans ''fast car'' with a total 1930s porch sitting feel.I cant explain it but she is incredible! She is so different. Can we please have more of this!
This wonderful woman's music found itself on UK TV! I was so shocked to hear her but I'm very proud. Her music is amazing and she deserves so much credit.
I heard her on that show Fresh Meat, she is amazing!
Sohil Naik what epp, can you remember?
slippytiger Fresh Meat: Series 3 - Episode 4
Valerie June is my new favorite.. She just makes me smile. Pure, natural, beautiful, organic... I could listen all day long. :-)
Her voice is so beautiful
The great tradition continues: stories about a life sung from the heart. Her first song has the feel and sound of sub Saharan Africa
So the 2nd song Rain Dance totally works... I cried, cried, cried sitting in my big city apartment so far from (like Dolly) my Tennessee Mountain home.
I think this is her best recording of Raindance. It has a faster tempo than the other versions I've come accross.
I enjoyed everything about this lady and performance
this chick is counnntry, at times she sounds like a cartoon character mockn country music..but I couldn't stop listening because she's so unique..she play the hell out that guitar!! But when started playing the banjo, I envisioned her sitting on the porch singing as the sun goes down 😀👏👏👏
Her singing voice is admittedly an acquired taste, but I absolutely love listening to her speak. If sweet tea were a person, its voice would sound like Valerie June.
braindaddy i think she is sweet tea embodied
+braindaddy lemon and ginger with three sugars
i agree. If sweet tea were a person, it would be V. June
I love her voice, she could sing I dictionary & sound great. Great performance again. Please come back to the UK again soon👍
Reclaiming folk music!
all I want is more more more! I adore Valerie June and love the light she spreads.
this is the best music i have heard in a while
The first note of each song, I'm immediately transported to my great grandparent's farm as a child. I love Junie!
She so awesome. Just heard V June first time this morning, haven't stop listening to HER.
listening to her on Hardly Strictly Bluegrass right now - that voice, you're so right - HOOKED! Diggin her guitar style, tone, etc. Thanks for sharing this Tiny Desk Concert!!
We need more of June! Her voice is so.......Beautiful!
Still amazes me how rotten people can be on social media. You just have to wonder why a person is compelled to state their negative opinion. You'd think they would just move on if an artist doesn't appeal to their taste. Btw, keep playing your songs in your own special way beautiful lady🌷
THIS IS HOW GOD INTENDED HER TO WRITE HER MUSIC AND SING IT FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF ALL. THOSE COMPLAINING ARE SPOILT BY TOO MUCH COMMERCIAL MUSIC, RECORD SALES AND THE CHARTS.
I absolutely love her. It took a couple listens to get used to her voice but now i can't stop listening to her. And i get to see her in concert in a month.
She's a force of nature! ... I'm going to see her perform next month in a converted church in Cork City Ireland just 2 minutes walk from my house :-D
I thought she sounded like an Irish folk singer. Hope you enjoyed the show
Just saw her live tonight in Austin, TX - amazing! I had no idea who she was before today, but I can truly say she sings from her soul to yours!
Something truly special about that "Rain Dance" song. @2:53
Love her, she's one of a kind. Such an individual and (sorry, so pretty).
I just fell in love with this woman.
Unique. Oh man, the feels...
Thank you for your sweet sunshine soul, Val. I am so grateful for you and your music.
She's such an amazing artist and refreshing at the same time.
Wow, this is why I love channels like NPR, I find so many great artists! This lady is a joy for my ears! And eyes!
Terrific talent. Simply Stellar.I'm watchin u Val. U good girl.
I know I've seen Valerie June somewhere else - I watch a lot of music videos so I cannot recall; Love her voice: the tone, inflections - close my eyes & I am transported to 1930s
Love your voice and the songs are amazing, thanks for sharing your gift from GOD, be blessed
I came here from her current Ted Talk and I would love to see a second Tiny Desk. She hooked me with Love You Once Made, and now Astral Plane is my inner Artist's Mantra.
Totally fell in love with her voice and raw performance. Thanks Tiny Desk.
She has a Blue Grass kind of voice.
Love her so much!! Listening to her for years and still can't get over her!
million-dollar talent and a million-dollar smile!
She's cool! I love her tone! As a musician/singer, I've been trying to expand my listening library and delve deeper into other styles of music, and I have been scouring CZcams to find some new people to listen to, and what are the odds that I run across this?! Lol. Amazing! Thanks NPR Music. :-)
She's very pretty too!
Honey she’s BEAUTIFUL!
WOW, watching this artist is a good way to end the day, thank you NPR thank you Valerie
Be still, my heart.
Oh she is so lovely
Hearing her heartfelt song is a true bliss.
Hypnotically beautiful, and that's just the her sound and the songs, to start with.
Yes......her voice is an aquired taste but I dig it......I like to her sisters singing various genres of music. And she can play that guitar. What a beauty
I just love Valerie June and her music❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
wow....just wow! So glad to come across this beautiful sister... Love her music & her style
I found out about her because she has a few songs on P-Valley and her songs make these strong woman seem stronger. It’s just really cool to see
Stunning.
Hypnotic.
Just so love seeing and listening to very interesting performers
That's a true artist, right there!
How did this beautiful creature come to be? Im completely hooked. :)
Authentic, beautiful, soul.
she is an amazing artist! Perfect music is colorless and unites us all!
Valerie is incredible! Say that in an excited french accent!
And thank you for introducing me to this wonderful music!! I appreciate it!!
Wow just WOW!!!! Tiny desk does it again... I'd buy her cd & take a scenic drive... beautiful! ❤😊
WOW...I have no words.
Love, love, love her! In everyday in every way!
Compared to what's hot on the radio now, people are going to come and listen to this and go what's this? Music? Instruments? No auto-tunes on her voice?
4mydearlady I don't care for her whiny voice. especially the song about climbing through the stratosphere. that's what I feel people won't like. there is no range or change in her voice throughout her songs, and the lyrics aren't catchy.
Aaron is crazy. Too used to that engineered sound.
Nick Golden I grow up listening to music from the 60-70s, and do not care for artists who can't match the sound of their albums.
I this case I just don't like this artist voice.
Nick Golden, after listening to several of VJ's videos, I agree with Aaron. Her voice is thin and reedy, it has no range. There's a difference between a talented voice, and one that's been engineered. If you want to hear talent, listen to Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, or Linda Ronstadt, or even Jessie Mae Hemphill. I realize I've thrown a lot of names at you, but this is merely a shallow scratching at the surface. Dig in and expand your horizon .
A few names, none of which I'd disagree with, but I think you are narrow. This is an extraordinary voice doing amazing things. Sad for you that you can't hear it. Shallow listening I' d say. Dig in and expand your horizon.
you are somebody i love! soooo much tree love valerie.... that a huge honor among treefolk
Just stunning! Grabs your heart immediately.
Fantastic. Reminds me of Tracy Chapman, who I saw years ago. I have watched a number of Valerie's videos and this is just terrific. I think Valerie sounds best when she just accompanies herself on guitar or banjo. I think a full band just hides her gifted voices. These are perfect. Thanks so much.
'Are you watching the moon rising in the darkness of life' awesome lyrics, brilliant woman! 👏❤️
What a soul...
Thanks to NPR's Tiny Desk series and Bob Boilen for constantly bringing new (to me) artists to my attention. Ms. June's music is so unique that the chances of hearing her music on commercial radio is very slim. I can't wait to hear what she produces in the future.