Becca Mancari To Release Debut Album 'Good Woman' on October 6

On October 6, the Nashville-based singer and songwriter Becca Mancari will release her debut album Good Woman via Sunshine and Happiness. Today, NPR Musicpremiered "Arizona Fire," the first song to be released from the forthcoming album. NPR's Jewly Hight said, "...the symbolic spaciousness that can be found in the music of Becca Mancari, an important new voice emerging from Nashville's indie country, folk and rock circles, is striking."

"When I was 23 I had my first real heartbreak," explains Mancari. "I fell in love with a wild card and followed her to Flagstaff, Arizona and then quickly realized that I lost myself in a person and had to make the choice to find myself again. I wandered around New Mexico and then India... and somehow found myself in South Florida... years later after a lot more love and heartbreaks I found myself back in Arizona for this record and finally put some things to rest."

The 9 songs that comprise Good Woman find Mancari establishing roots in Nashville following a life in transition. Born in Staten Island, NY, to an Italian-Irish preacher father and a Puerto Rican mother, Mancari has spent time working as a janitor in South Florida, writing songs with train hoppers in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and traveling to India seeking spirituality.

The release of Good Woman follows a whirlwind year where she was named one of "Nine Artists To Watch For At AmericanaFest 2016" by NPR Music after the release of her song "Summertime Mama." Over a short period of time, Mancari was invited to open shows for artists like Margo Price, Hurray For The Riff Raff, SUSTO, Joan Osborne and many more.

Recently, Mancari announced a new project called Bermuda Triangle, a trio alongside Brittany Howard of The Alabama Shakes and Jesse Lafser. The group made their live debut at the Basement East on July 12 at a concert promoted by She Shreds.

Mancari's debut is hauntingly lonesome, with dust cloud swells of electric guitar and don't-look-back lyrics that reveal scenes from Mancari's well-travelled life. Since her music is the landscape of all she's seen, Good Woman evokes the sound of city grit and the mountain music of her youth, swirling into a fresh, nostalgic sound.

In reference to her evolving sound, Mancari said in an interview with Native Magazine, "Our hope is that we're doing something that respects the roots but also has space and the galaxy in it."

This fall, Mancari and her band will showcase Good Woman on a tour with Birdtalker, with additional tour dates to be announced later this year.

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