In Victoria Bailey’s songs, she carries us over an expansive emotional and musical terrain. We ride with her through the desolation of loss, over the rocky ledges of heartache, across the fields of blossoming wildflowers of new love, and along the plains of promise and new-found faith. Bailey’s vocals ring with an emotional purity that reverberates deeply. Like Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton, Bailey dwells in her songs, drawing out every note of emotion with her vocal phrasing and musical range.
Like all classic bluegrass and country songs, Bailey’s songs are atmospheric, telling stories of love gone wrong or evoking the memory of a special place or celebrating the joys of a special relationship. On her new album, A Cowgirl Rides On, Bailey travels alongside Harris, Parton, Loretta Lynn, and other classics as she delivers a collection of personal, heartfelt songs that resonate universally. Awash in pedal steel, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, and guitar, the songs on A Cowgirl Rides On create an openness into which Bailey enters with her intimate vocals. “I feel like each song has a little piece of me,” reflects Bailey. “I wanted the record to feel like I sound live.” With this in mind, she and producer Brian Whelan, who also co-wrote some of the songs, recorded the songs live.
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“Classic country to her core, California-based Victoria Bailey evokes visions of the singing cowgirls of the Silver Screen...This is an artist to get on your radar.” - Saving Country Music
“...[an] artist with the skillset to become a flag bearer for traditional country music in the coming years...the icing on the cake is a stunning soprano vocal that recalls the classic female country vocalists of yesteryear.” - Lonesome Highway
“...the voice of an angel, yet her music is sometimes country-rough and gritty, a late-night honky tonk come to life, with lyrics that can inform and evoke emotions from all who listen.” - Roughstock
“...she has clearly set her sights on joining the ranks of the legendary honky-tonk angels who came before her....With her strong soprano voice and gorgeous classic country melodies, Victoria Bailey’s Jesus, Red Wine & Patsy Cline will transport you to country’s golden age.” - Turnstyled Junkpiled
“If you’re looking for a honky tonk sweetheart, then you’ve found one in native Californian Victoria Bailey, who comes sauntering out of the painted desert on a Palomino like a singin’ cowgirl from the days of old, seducing you with eyes the size of flying saucers and a sweet soprano with the most perfect country warble, singing original songs that compliment the throwback style into a full package of country music goodness.” - Saving Country Music
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