Album Review: Miko Marks & The Resurrectors, Our Country

Patience is a virtue. And for Miko Marks, it's been over a decade in the making. After trying to get over the "high fences made of stone" along Nashville's Music Row in the early part of the millennium, Marks left music for years before returning to it a few years back. Now with this remarkably strong, stirring effort Marks is bound to leave her mark on millions of ears.

Throughout ten songs, Marks and her quality backing group The Resurrectors lift each song high with bits of soul, pinches of roots and gospel and all around good vibes. From the opening "Ancestors" that has spine-tingling Tina, Aretha or Mavis Staples moments, Marks crafts an album that is both timeless and timely given the world's woes.

The album's catalyst, "Goodnight America," has a Delta blues feel to it but its lyrics speak to ending the racism and "evil" that was (and sadly is) continuing in North America. But one simply won't find a better soulful combination than "Mercy" and the politically poignant "We Are Here" about inequities in her Flint, Michigan hometown. Although ending with "Not Be Moved," Marks has made an incredibly moving and purposeful piece of art.

Our Country was released March 26, 2021 on Redtone Records.
Listen to it here.