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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