Angie Stevens delivers a time-warped trip through America’s backroads, a melange of rhythms and sounds that tap into populist (as opposed to “pop”) music past and present.

Shades of slow swing ballads playing in 3/4 time on the jukebox at the local
dive bar; Grand Ole Opry broadcasts crackling on the radio on a humid summer night; storytelling songs being shared on a front porch; stripped down rhythms whomping against black-painted basement walls.

The music of Angie Stevens marks a convergence of four genres: bluegrass, traditional country, vintage rock-and-roll, and indie rock. Her music (on the CD and especially in
her live performances) echoes historical notes, but drives hard with modern day energy.

“Life is my biggest influence. I write for the confused young girls who sit in
their rooms and cry. I know what it’s like to rise above the ashes and what it’s like to endure the worst of life. The best part is that I’ve also endured the best. I take nothing for granted, and live each day with passion pouring into everything I do.”

Stevens grew up in South Dakota. “I picked up a guitar when I was ten,
fascinated by how something made of wood could understand my depressed brother more than any
person I knew. I was drawn to it, but after he committed suicide the next year at age 21, I didn’t go back to it until I was sixteen. I had his Fender Stratocaster (my mom gave away
his acoustic, and we still kick ourselves for that) and I began to play to accompany my poetry. The words I wrote for the hard life I had lived. The words I wrote for him.”

She headed to Minnesota for college, but didn’t stay. “I was on my way to
California to pursue my dreams, got sidetracked by a love affair, and there I was in Colorado.”

She’s done her turn as a solo artist playing the coffee house circuit, “but I
really wanted to expand my sound so it could completely engulf all who listened.” She formed her
three-piece band in January 2005. They spent February in the studio. In March they released I’m Okay. By April, invitations to play at high visibility events were rolling
in and people were recommending her to industry reps locally and nationally.

Everything has happened so quickly that Angie has gotten only one review so far, but it was a rave:

“I’m Okay quickly landed a spot in the hallowed car CD changer between Mindy Smith and my daughter’s copy of some Ani Difranco CD. And that, curiously, is kind of where it
fits—sonically, as a fusion of genres … this album is a stunningly diverse
patchwork neatly woven inside a traditional framework … I’m Okay is a do-it-yourself masterpiece: a star that shines this brightly won’t be a secret long.” Xposur Magazine, April2005