Sara Jean Stevens

No matter how much time passes, it always seems to catch up with you. For Sara Jean Stevens,
those fleeting moments became a rich source of inspiration for her sophomore EP, Lovesick.
Out February 14, the four layered tracks bring hints of country, folk, roadhouse and singer-
songwriter poetry, and continue exploring her unique voice in Americana.
On the pensive title track, padded with delicate lap steel and earnest vocals, Stevens pleads
over and over, I look for you in cold strange places. It’s a search that has eclipsed her for years.
“I wrote the song 20 years ago, and have never even played it live. It’s like it had to marinate
deep in my cells for two decades before it was ready to see the world,” she says.
To be fair, in those two decades, Stevens has been busy. The Chicago-based artist – who grew
up on a horse farm in the flatlands of Illinois and began taking classical voice and piano lessons
as a child before picking up the guitar at 18 – had a lucrative career touring the world as part of
top-line ensembles before choosing to find her own place in music. Her solo material has been
hailed as a mix of Emmylou Harris and Mazzy Star and described as music for the loners, the
hopeless romantics and the dreamers. In the past couple of years, her sound has caught the
attention of acclaimed roots, rock, country and folk artists like John Hiatt, Rhett Miller (Old
97s), The Wood Brothers, Nora O’Connor and Whitehorse who have called on Stevens to open
for them.

 

- bio written by Selena Fragassi