Abby Bryant & The Echoes

Singer Abby Bryant and guitarist Bailey Faulkner have been hanging out and playing music together since they were kids. The pair has cemented their presence as a regional powerhouse with debut album Not Your Little Girl released with their full group Abby Bryant & The Echoes. The debut LP is a confident and rebellious collection, showcasing Bryant’s vocal abilities and claiming the band’s hard-fought place in the world of vintage-inspired southern soul rock. Bryant and Faulkner share a common love for the sound and spirit of soul and American roots music as embodied by artists like Etta James and Bonnie Raitt and more recent artists including Susan Tedeschi and Margo Price. With these inspirations, Bryant and Faulkner began co-writing songs that would eventually appear on Not Your Little Girl. Recorded in the band’s new home base of Asheville, NC, the album features Anthony Dorion on bass, John Ginty (Robert Randolph & The Family Band, The Allman Betts Band) on Hammond organ and keys, Jeff Sipe (Col. Bruce Hampton, Leftover Salmon, Susan Tedeschi) on drums, and The Naughty Horns (Nick Ellman, John Culbreth, Ian Bowman) in addition to Faulkner on guitars and Bryant on vocals. The collection exhibits fierce independence, a fiery spirit, and a deep love for and understanding of American roots and soul music.