Country Standard Time sets their sights on “A Million Stars”: On the fourth album released on her label, Home Perm, Ashleigh Flynn continues to do what she’s always done best: seduce us with lively stories backed by tender, raucous, and rollicking instrumentals. In the tales on “A Million Stars,” Flynn celebrates and recovers for our […]
It may not be a million, but Pennsylvania’s The Daily News gave four and a half stars to A Million Stars writing, “…Flynn shows off her estimable gifts.” The full review text: Inspired by a watercolor painting by her young niece of a cowgirl astride her horse, singer/songwriter Ashleigh Flynn has crafted a near-perfect album in […]
Thanks Danny at Alternate Roots for the review: Ashleigh Flynn spins her stories in Portland, Oregon. Ashleigh takes history and sticks it in a song. On A Million Stars, her fourth release on her own imprint, Home Perm Records, Ashleigh introduces us to heroines and lawless ladies (sometimes the roles are interchangeable within the body […]
Think Out Loud invited Ashleigh into the OPB studios for a Q&A on May 9, to talk about her new album, and to play a few songs for the radio audience. Check out the video page for a live recording of “A Little Low” (in HD!). Listen to the interview in its entirety on OPB.org.
Portland, Oregon-based Ashleigh Flynn is the unique female voice that Americana music has been longing for, strong and full of soul. Set for national release on May 14, 2013; to celebrate the release of her fourth studio effort, Flynn is offering a FREE download from A Million Stars: Prohibition Rose. “This song is about Portland’s […]
Portland-based singer-songwriter Ashleigh Flynn has been earning her way up the folk/roots/Americana totem pole for years, playing her heart out in cities around the country. Like many on the Portland scene, Flynn seems to pull from a bottomless source of inspiration – including bluegrass, country, and folk, but also indie rock and other styles – […]
Thanks Grateful Web for the album preview! A Million Stars continues the inspired narrative Flynn began on earlier records with tales deeply rooted in the American experience. The most profound seed of inspiration for the new record was a watercolor painted by her young niece depicting a cowgirl atop her horse under a starry desert […]
Ryan White of the Oregonian gives A Million Stars a big thumbs up. Photo by Richard Hallman. The story: Imagine being an African American woman in 1928 singing the lyric, “Went out last night with a crowd of my friends/They must have been women ’cause I don’t like no men.” Ma Rainey didn’t just sing it, […]
