20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Edmonton Journal
Country songbird Mariel Buckley turns the liminal life into music of rare beauty
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Buckley's sweet Everywhere I Used to Be followed in '22 (unsurprisingly short-listed for the Polaris), and within its gorgeous folds lurks the standout Hate This Town — bearing one of the sharpest rebuttals to agro proselytizing ever heard around here … and yet so sweetly sung.
Burned out from the magnificent weekend-long Starlite birthday street celebrations, I kept accusing bits of 34-year-old Buckley's music of being 'sad' when I called her down in Nashville early Monday, which she smartly sidestepped — because, fair enough, that's not really her vibe at all.
