Rebecca Loebe – Intimate Folk, Catchy Pop, and Genre-bending Americana from a voice built for Listening Rooms | with our guest, Davey O

“A woman at the height of her powers.” – Kathy Mattea, Mountain Stage (NPR)

Austin-based troubadour Rebecca Loebe has spent the past decade building an international audience the old-fashioned way—performing in listening rooms and theaters across the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, and the UK. A cast member of the first season of NBC’s The Voice, Loebe combines intimate folk, catchy pop and Americana on her genre-bending 2019 album Give Up Your Ghosts, earning praise from Billboard, Rolling Stone and rock critic Dave Marsh. At Godfrey Daniels, her sharp songwriting, distinctive voice and knack for getting audiences singing along belong in exactly the kind of close, listening-focused setting where every ticket is a backstage pass.

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Over the past decade, Austin-based troubadour Rebecca Loebe has been steadily building her audience the old fashioned way: driving hundreds of thousands of miles in an old station wagon, performing in listening rooms and theaters across the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, and the UK. During her last radio interview in England, an announcer for the BBC declared “Your voice should be available for free on the National Health!”

Her singing voice landed her on national television when she was cast on the first season of NBC’s The Voice. Ask her about that experience and she’ll proudly tell you that, since her mentorship with Adam Levine, “His career has really skyrocketed and I’m just so proud of that boy.”

Lately she’s been indulging a sneaky pastime. “I like to write catchy songs about topics that are meaningful to me, but use fun hooks to put words in people’s mouths.” She admits, “My favorite thing is to get people singing along before they even realize they’re singing about women’s equality or their own self-worth.”

In 2019, she released her fifth studio album, her first collaboration with the Grammy-nominated Houston-based record label Blue Corn Music. The genre-bending album borrows equally from the worlds of intimate folk, ear wormy pop, and no-holds-barred Americana.

Refusing to pledge allegiance to any single genre was a creative gamble that has paid off in a big way: Give Up Your Ghosts has received the best press of Loebe’s career including praise from Billboard, Rolling Stone, and legendary rock critic Dave Marsh, who said: “Once I put it on I couldn’t take it off.”

Recently, Rebecca has spent her time recently writing, recording, performing online, and launching a Youtube series about what really goes on behind the scenes in the lives and careers of independent musicians. She also got a dog, so if you hate puppy pictures, make sure not to look at her social media. Make sure to catch up with Rebecca on Facebook, Instagram or join Team Loebe on Patreon to be the first to hear her newest music! 

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Davey O. is an award winning, critically acclaimed singer-songwriter based in Buffalo, NY.  Included among his accolades - a selection as a 2013 Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Songwriting Finalist, and a 2015 Mid Atlantic Song Contest Finalist, as well as having several of his releases included among the “best of” lists on Folk and Roots Radio for the years of their release. 

His work has received critical acclaim in the pages of “No Depression” and “Americana Highways”, and in addition to performing at some of the most prestigious listening room and concert club venues in the U.S. among them - Caffe Lena, Godfrey Daniels, Cafe Veritas, Nazareth Center for the Arts, Passim. Davey has opened shows for a long list of notable artists, including Dan Navarro, Lucy Kaplansky, Amy Speace, Tracy Grammer, Eilen Jewell, Suzanne Vega, Eric Andersen, Cheryl Wheeler, Sloan Wainwright, Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange), Vance Gilbert, Peter Mulvey, Steve Forbert, Jim Lauderdale, The Kennedys, and Poco.