A guitarist and singer-songwriter who was born in the Midwest but raised in the southwest, Peggy James brings a wealth of influences to her atypical brand of Americana, where vintage pop ideas enter her vivid storytelling and very charming song craft.

Everyone has stories to tell, but the best storytellers illuminate not only themselves but the world around them. Milwaukee’s Peggy James is a great storyteller blessed with the gift of music.

Americana is too small a word to describe Peggy’s latest album, her seventh Till I Turn Blue (out June 27th, 2025 via Happy Growl Records). Her songs are both deeply felt and keenly observant, sung in a voice emotionally resonant of America’s country music tradition.

However, the production of multi-instrumentation Jim Eannelli presents her music in a wider context that transcends easy categories and overlaps several contemporary radio and steaming formats.

1. Compensation
2. There Must Be Gold
3. So over You
4. First Kiss
5. Eyes On The Horizon
6. A Walk With You
7. Loneliest Girl
8. Stuck On The Track
9. Till I Turn Blue
10. O. Winston Link
11. You’re Still The Highlight
12. Isn’t Anybody Coming?

Glowing with a timeless Americana spirit this brand new recording opens on the resounding blues-pop flow of Compensation and the gently countrified There Must Be Gold and then we get the jazz blues guitar rock of So Over You, the low slung First Kiss, the aching troubadour-hued Eyes On The Horizon and then comes the beautiful summery flow of A Walk With You.

Along next is the rocker Loneliest Girl and the mid-tempo Americana/folk-imbed Stuck On The Track, and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the lonesome-hued title cut Till I Turn Blue, some dutiful storytelling within O. Winston Link, the set rounding out on the melodious You’re Still The Highlight, coming to a close on the harmoniously-crafted Isn’t Anybody Coming?

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