{"id":481377,"date":"2019-01-26T07:37:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T14:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=782464"},"modified":"2019-01-26T07:37:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T14:37:21","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-yebba-evergreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-yebba-evergreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Yebba, \u2018Evergreen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yebba Smith\u2019s gospel roots bleed through her single \u201cEvergreen,\u201d a slow-burning ballad full of mettle and longing. It\u2019s over a year old now, but very worth revisiting \u2014 especially as Smith gets ready to contend at the 2019 Grammy Awards for another song, her PJ Morton collaboration \u201cHow Deep Is Your Love,\u201d which is up for Best Traditional R&B Performance.<\/p>\n

Above a steady bass line, Smith\u2019s voice nimbly covers the full range of her voice. As the song opens up to a romantic chorus where she hopes that her \u201cevergreen\u201d in question will wait for her, so does an enthusiastic chorus of voices that make the song sound like a final prayer for a lost cause. It\u2019s a mesmerizing piece of music that went criminally neglected upon its release; listening to it now, the song raises the possibility that she\u2019ll be this generation\u2019s next great soul singer.<\/p>\n

Besides the Grammy nomination, the Brooklyn-based, Arkansas-born singer also teamed up with Sam Smith on his most recent album\u00a0The Thrill of It All<\/em>. Though she hasn\u2019t confirmed dates for either, she has teased<\/a> an album and tour for this year.<\/p>\n