Based out of Durham, NC, Violet Bell weaves gypsy, blues, and soul influences with folk-rock roots.

Musical influences include Fiona Apple, Laura Marling, Blake Mills, Eno, PJ Harvey, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Otis Redding, Velvet Underground, Joni, Yo La Tengo, Cowboy Junkies, James McMurtry and Astral Weeks.

“Folksy, jazzy, bluesy in all the best senses of those words, it’s like country music the way you wish country music would be rather than the redoubt of pop triflngs it is… a voice like cigarettes and the smoothest whiskey you’ve ever tasted.” – Stephen Markley, Chicago Redeye