Since the release of her 2013 Dan Arbok produced album, pushing against the stone, Valor

June has become a critics-darlay. Rolling Stone praised the Tennessee-born Soul

Singers' unique voice as Venergary and slightly oddball, writing that she's equal parts

to Steyon Arross and Dolly Parton.

With every subsequent release, Valor June has helped widen the scope of contemporary

Americana music. She's won a few African-American women working in the genre today. Her unique

combination of gospel with Appalachian folk is a shimmering example of what's possible

in the Roots Music tradition. Broken Record producer Leah Rose caught up with Valor

Lee to talk through her stunning new album. They also talk about Valor Lee's new collaboration

with the legendary Staxinger Carlitonis and the mystical muse who inspires the course

of voices that Valor here's in her head.

Here's Leah Rose and Valor June. Valor starts off by singing a song off her brand new

album, The Moon and Stars, Prescriptions for Dreamers.

That's beautiful. Thank you. So what

inspired that did that start with the idea of trying to calm the chattery mind?

Well, it started like most of the songs where like it just came the first thing I heard

was, I know there is a place for me. And then I waited and then the wrist started coming

and it said, Help me to grow that I may live and see. And I was like, Oh, okay, what am

I growing for? And then it said a string to flow, well, no end to find that all the key

and tears my chattering mind. And I was like, Oh, okay, I'm in now. So I wanted to know

more after that. And that's when it said there's a home inside and it's a window to your

soul where every dream abides and each breath is gold, a pathway, a light and a God.

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