What registers on Nashville singer and songwriter Michaela Anne’s 2019 full-length Desert Dove is the way her brisk and relatively austere brand of indie-flavored folk rock straddles the line between Americana and mainstream country. The New York-born singer released her first album in 2011 and signed with well-known Americana-indie label Yep Roc Records in 2019. For my money, the uptempo tunes on Desert Dove sound like the kind of country-indie crossover efforts that manage to be intellectualized and direct at the same time — the album’s excellent “I’m Not the Fire” nudges close to power pop. Meanwhile, Anne’s second Yep Roc album, 2022’s Oh to Be That Free, is a bit slower than Desert Dove. On the evidence of the singles she’s released from her forthcoming album These Are the Days, her flair for creating high-definition quasi-country remains intact, as you can hear on “If Your Body Fails You.” These Are the Days is set for release on May 8, and Anne performs March 24 at Vinyl Tap as part of her ongoing residency there, which concludes with a show on April 9. The Saint Johns open for the first show; Golden Everything does the honors on April 9.
6 p.m. at Vinyl Tap
2038 Greenwood Ave.
