Love for Legacy
Love for Legacy…A Look at What Folks Are Saying:
“...heartfelt empathy is evident on Legacy, an inspiring collection of gospel, folk and blues.” - NPR
"...a Nashville-based and roots-driven soul vocalist, educator, musical therapist and songwriter bearing peerless Americana, country and folk co-signs" - The Tennessean
"Both as an album and a reclamation of her family's over 150-year-old American genealogy...it -- like many of her previous works -- captures the 'honest essence' of 'tangible realities.'" - The Tennessean
"Kyshona nurtures the myriad branches of her family tree with this remarkably thorough tribute to her ancestors." - The Boston Globe
"Even when she keeps her big soprano in a conversational mode, it’s impressive, and when she lets it go on a climax, the shift provides the drama that mere volume can never match...her lyrics are driven by metaphors rather than sermons." - Paste Magazine
"Kyshona incorporates sounds from across the spectrum of Black music to craft a gift for the rest of us." - No Depression
"Kyshona incorporates her family’s own archive of choir performances and sermons to craft a throughline from her immediate ancestors to the deep past — and back to the future." - No Depression
"...organic, rocking, soulful groove" - The Nashville Scene
"...an ethereal testimony to the resonating presence of the generations of individuals who reverberate through our lives." - Folk Alley
"Kyshona's genre-fluid album...finds redemption in exploring generational traumas - with compassion, heart, and family ties front and center" - Good Country
"Kyshona’s creative and perceptive approach to her place in the world, as a Black woman, as a child of South Carolina, as an inheritor of gospel tradition, grips our attention all the way through the dulcet folk of its closing song" - WMOT - The String
"On this album Kyshona takes listeners on a journey through her family legacy...while also creating her own legacy for the next generation." - WNXP
"...an absolutely fierce bit of soulful rock and roll about the importance of keeping her familial stories, and sacrifice, alive" - Don't Rock The Inbox
"...a steaming country funk beat bubbles beneath the surface before it boils over and it all ends up sounding something like Odetta cutting a '70s Stax slow jam." - Holler
"Spiritual" - Rock & Blues Muse
"One spin of these 13 memorable gems (and three brief interludes) takes the listener to another, higher psychological plateau, lifting spirits and encouraging a more divine, holistic approach to life through her music." - Rock & Blues Muse
"...a stunning display of passionate soul and country-fried blues...showcases the artist’s poetic approach to songwriting as she delivers her words in a cloud of soulful prowess." - Glide Magazine
"Kyshona makes Nashville a better place" - Adobe & Teardrops
"Whether it’s through her work as a music therapist and activist, or the impressive artistic community she’s marshaled for her upcoming album Legacy...Kyshona is always one to use her light to refract through others and create something greater than the sum of their parts." - Adobe & Teardrops
“...Ms K mixes rootsy sounds, blues, folk, gospel and southern soul flavours into a provocative cocktail.” - Soul&Jazz&Funk