Willow Avalon

Willow Avalon's smoky voice and shimmering, West Coast highway-attuned rock style -- first introduced on the 2021 single "Drivin" -- makes her seem out of another time, like Stevie Nicks reborn at the turn of the millennium. But her quirky, minimal social media presence and lyrical honesty make her fit in well with her singer/songwriter contemporaries. Avalon was born Willow Martin in Georgia in 1998, the daughter of outsider musician Jim White, whose misfit-Americana debut, Wrong Eyed Jesus, was championed by the likes of David Byrne (who reissued it on his Luaka Bop label) ...