Marion’s Bailey Bigger comes into her own on new album
Bailey Bigger’s “Resurrection Fern” album-release show is Thursday, Oct. 31, at the Green Room at Crosstown Concourse. (Courtesy Caroline Frady)
If you’re a Memphian interested in roots-oriented music, you’ve probably seen or heard Bailey Bigger. And if you’ve seen or heard Bigger, you probably remember it.
The Marion, Arkansas, native first started popping up on this side of the river as a striking, precociously talented teenager, a guitar-wielding, folk-country songbird who’d been writing since even before she was a teen. She found a quick fan — and vice versa — in songwriter Mark Edgar Stuart, who became a collaborator and mentor, producing Bigger’s well-received 2022 debut album “Coyote Red.”
“She just had it, dude, even at 18 years old,” said Stuart, who first met Bigger at a Midtown songwriting competition, one where they each came up short.
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Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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