Grace Askew is a sixth-generation Memphian and a highway child. Growing up to the humming lullaby of the nearby interstate, she fell asleep to dreams of all the places she too would travel to one day. With a Faulknerian Southern-Gothic storytelling style, her lyrics weave vivid imagery of a life lived with authenticity and grit, always paying homage to her Delta roots. The rough-around-the edges, and righteously primal sounds of her slide resonator guitar, bellows, stomps, claps and hollers will leave you baptized by the Blues and grounded in the truths of an old-soul. There is a delivery and phrasing that is all her own with every performance and, no doubt, Grace Askew's unique, sultry, powerhouse of a voice will help her writing stand the test of time.
Currently in a 500-day songwriting challenge, writing and live streaming a brand new song every single day, since January 1, 2018 - thusly forming the 365 Tribe.

Spin calls her "astoundingly defiant."
Rolling Stone calls her "sultry" while praising her "raw, real and righteous" songwriting.

With 6 studio albums and nearly a decade of touring under her belt, Grace has solidified herself as a relentlessly creative artist and a powerhouse of talent. She cut her first records at the legendary Ardent Studios & Sun Studios in Memphis, and has been a regular on the singer-songwriter circuit. She mostly hits the road accompanied only by her truck, Wanda, though she has also joined the likes of James McMurtry, Leon Russell, Marty Stuart, T-Model Ford, Jesse Winchester, Lisa Marie Presley, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Colter Wall, and Hayes Carll. She took home 1st place in the Unsigned Only, International, and John Lennon Songwriting Contests and made it to the final 32 on Season 4 of The Voice in 2013.
CHEERS to self-expression, the “dominant necessity of human nature.” [Dale Carnegie]

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