Grace Bowers' Top 5 Songs Right Now
EDITOR’S NOTE: No Depression’s new “Top 5” series features a quick playlist in which roots musicians share what they’re listening to at the moment. It gives artists the chance to highlight their contemporaries, as well as classic songs getting them through
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EDITOR’S NOTE: No Depression’s new “Top 5” series features a quick playlist in which roots musicians share what they’re listening to at the moment. It gives artists the chance to highlight their contemporaries, as well as classic songs getting them through the days. This installment comes from up-and-coming guitar phenom Grace Bowers, whose new EP, Grace, arrived November 6.
It's hard for prodigies to find their places in the world, especially as young people. Grace Bowers, a 20-year-old Nashville-based musician, has been hyped as the next great guitarist out of the Music City for years already. She was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in January and made her debut at the Grand Ole Opry when she was just 17. Along the way, she earned a name as one of the most exciting new shredding blues guitarists, inspired by classic rock bands like The Rolling Stones and Guns 'n' Roses (having already performed with Slash), as well as contemporary glass-ceiling-crashers like Gary Clark Jr (having toured and collaborated with him, too).
On her debut EP, Grace, however, Bowers moves in a different musical direction yet again. She sings for the first time and blends elements of pop and punk into her evolving sound. It's fitting, of course, to try new things at this stage in life, but as she snarls on single "19," "Don't call me young again, 'cause I might freak out."
Fittingly, then, Bowers' picks for what she's listening to these days run the gamut of genres she has dabbled in and makes sure to shoutout others on the rise in Nashville. Read on for the top five songs Bowers is listening to these days and check out her debut EP, Grace, out now.
