{"id":2442062,"date":"2019-03-23T10:33:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T16:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=812453"},"modified":"2019-03-23T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T16:33:54","slug":"watch-yola-showcase-debut-lp-on-cbs-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-yola-showcase-debut-lp-on-cbs-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Yola Showcase Debut LP on \u2018CBS This Morning\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-23-at-8.32.35-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/sxsw-2019-30-best-artists-we-saw-in-austin-809326\/yola-809345\/\">Fresh off her standout SXSW set<\/a>, Yola&nbsp;visited Saturday\u2019s <em>CBS This Morning<\/em> to perform three songs off her debut solo LP <em>Walk Through Fire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The British singer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/yola-artist-you-need-to-know-780854\/\">one of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s recent Artists You Need to Know<\/a>, and her band stunned with a mini-concert with renditions of \u201cFaraway Look,\u201d \u201cLove All Night (Work All Day)\u201d and \u201cRide Out In The Country,\u201d all from <em>Walk Through Fire<\/em>, produced by the Black Keys\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dan-auerbach\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dan-auerbach\" data-tag=\"dan-auerbach\">Dan Auerbach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yola, born Yolanda Quartey, was able to refine her genre-spanning sound once she began working with Auerbach under his Easy Eye label. \u201cYou want to represent sonically what you feel needs to be represented,\u201d the singer told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/yola-artist-you-need-to-know-780854\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s how I see music, as an aesthetic and sound that you\u2019re fighting for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7DfW5bjN5E?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bQSs9ya2fAA?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Walk Through Fire<\/em>, which follows up her 2016 debut EP <em>Orphan Offerin<\/em>,&nbsp;chronicles Yola\u2019s personal and artistic rebirth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I love rich harmony, and so I wanted the album to sound luscious and big and grandiose,\u201d she added. \u201cBut I also wanted to push out the fact that I am different, that I am other. It\u2019s important for women of color to be other, to be not blending in with an aesthetic that is ubiquitous. To be doing something that sets itself apart, and that is derived from musicians of color, but maybe from a different era, from sounds that are less common, or that feel like they\u2019ve been disappearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yola is set to perform at the U.K. Americana festival Ramblin\u2019 Roots Revue on April 12th before heading out on the European leg of the \u201cWalk Through Fire\u201d Tour on May 11th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/yola-cbs-this-morning-812453\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off her standout SXSW set, Yola&nbsp;visited Saturday\u2019s CBS This Morning to perform three songs off her debut solo LP Walk Through Fire. The British singer, one of Rolling Stone\u2018s recent Artists You Need to Know, and her band stunned with a mini-concert with renditions of \u201cFaraway Look,\u201d \u201cLove All Night (Work All Day)\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 00:57:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}