Valerie June found her voice in Memphis, then took it on the road
West Tennessee native Valerie June has achieved her dream of touring around the country, but her concert at Satellite Music Hall Sept. 17 brings her back once more to Memphis roots. (Courtesy Pitch Perfect PR)
In 2009, as she was about to appear in director Craig Brewer’s MTV series “$5 Cover,” a bundle of short films fictionalizing the real Memphis music scene, Valerie June sat in a booth of the Midtown Memphis restaurant Fresh Slices and detailed her plan to get out of town and live as a traveling musician.
Valerie June
Satellite Music Hall
Thursday, Sept. 17
Ticketing and other info here.
She would purchase a mobile “little house,” one that could be hauled from festival to festival, town to town, allowing her to live where the music took her. She had read the brochures and was planning to attend a demonstration.
It was an unusual, and unusually modest, dream.
In an outcome that’s far too rare in the music business, June’s career has exceeded her expectations.
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Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He now splits his time between Minneapolis-St. Paul, where his wife works, and Memphis.
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