Edan Archer

Edan Archer is the type of woman who co-writes odes to liquor with her mom and has a repertoire of murder ballads at the ready at all times — some of which were written by her, others which have been passed down as folk songs since the Renaissance era. Archer grew up in swampy Gainesville, Florida — hometown of Tom Petty- singing Appalachian music around the house with her mom and two sisters. Even at a young age, the themes of those traditional songs crept into her songwriting. Today Archer is equally adept at modernizing centuries-old murder ballads (see 2016’s “Cruel Mother”) as she is singing Petty-style dive-bar jams like “Bad Imitation of Something Good,” off her 2019 album, Journey Proud. She continues to mine similar territory on her upcoming singles, which take a new, powerful direction into cosmic rock. She’s been featured in Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, and has played Americanafest, Stagecoach, Gasparilla. After spending a decade living in Miami (“I didn’t know I was country ‘til I left the country,” she says), and several stints in Nashville and New York City, Archer is self-producing and recording her new singles herself. She’s still got her roots in the living room in which she learned to harmonize with her family band, and her penchant for soul-stirring writing remains the same. She sings of heartbreak, rebellion, substance abuse, hard work, and spirituality--a micro-verse of American life told through American musical styles.