Sierra Ferrell - Long Time Coming

Long Time Coming is the major label debut studio album by American singer songwriter Sierra Ferrell, released in August 2021 via Rounder Records.

With her spellbinding voice and time-bending sensibilities, Sierra Ferrell makes music that’s as fantastically vagabond as the artist herself. On her highly anticipated Rounder debut Long Time Coming, Ferrell shares a dozen songs beautifully unbound by genre or era, instantly transporting her audience to an infinitely more enchanted world.

Co-produced by Stu Hibberd and 10-time Grammy Award-winner Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, Gillian Welch), Long Time Coming embodies a delicate eclecticism fitting for a musician who utterly defies categorization.

Long Time Coming features a stellar line-up of musicians, including country royalty like Chris Scruggs, Billy Strings, and her long- time collaborator Nathan Leath (a fiddle player she first met at the American Legion Post 82's Honky-Tonk Tuesday). Sprung from her self-described "country heart but a jazz mind," tracks include "Why'd Ya Do It": a beguiling and bittersweet lament partly inspired by Ferrell's fascination with calypso and tango music. ("That song took me a few years to put together-it's such a different vibe for me, and I'm ridiculously happy with the outcome," Ferrell notes.) And with its galloping rhythm and classic bluegrass storytelling-as well as a guest appearance from Grammy Award-winner Sarah Jarosz on background vocals-"Jeremiah" sweetly delivers what Ferrell dubs "a broken song, with a gleam of hope at the end."

Ferrell delights in defying all convention in everything she creates. "I want my music to be like my mind is-all over the place," she says. "I listen to everything from bluegrass to techno to goth metal, and it all inspires me in different ways that I try to incorporate into my songs and make people really feel something."

This album is on black vinyl with a printed inner sleeve, pressed in Europe via Rounder Records.