Lady Cannon

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Lady Cannon is a dreamy-sounding electric folk/americana band from Milwaukee, WI. Primarily booked for original music, the project often plays covers and can even do full sets of covers.The project is the brainchild of Martha Cannon and includes some of Milwaukee’s most distinguished jazz and experimental musicians, including upright bassist Barry Paul Clark (who plays in Field Report along with Drobka), cellist Pat Reihholz and guitarist Andrew Murray Trim. The band’s new sound is softer around the edges thanks to those strings, yet as tough as ever at its core—a stately complement to Cannon’s sweet/sour songwriting.

Recorded with Shane Hochstetler at Howl Street Recordings, Lady Cannon’s 2019 album Fortune's Darling is an account of driftless men and determined women that documents the toll that trying to play it cool takes on the psyche of even the most resilient pragmatist. It features some of Cannon’s most barbed songs yet, and conversely, some of her most romantic, too.