Kassi Valazza Tickets

Kassi Valazza has a viscous, light gold voice. It swirls around in your head like whiskey in a snifter; vaporous, and intoxicating. For most of her 2019 debut album 'Dear Dead Days', pedal steel and electric guitar lope along at half time, the in pocket rhythm section booming from deep in the low end.

Musicians with Southwest origins dependably bring a languorous relaxation -- the slow pace a defense against the oppressive heat of the high desert -- and a grim sense of gravitas, having walked among the bleached bones and arid landscapes. At times Valazza sings as if her lyrics are smoke she's exhaling.