Angie Atkinson

Southern-bred and New York-based singer/songwriter Angie Atkinson's music career began when her marriage ended and it seemed like it was time to do something new. Angie grew up in Mississippi, a city girl at heart who brought the country with her when she moved to New York in 2009. Angie combines her metropolitan sophistication with her grassroots realness to create an urban cowgirl sound that is uniquely her own, though when she was a kid she heard Jon Bon Jovi's album Blaze Of Glory and said, "That's what I want to be when I grow up." Whether playing acoustically on her ukulele or with her powerhouse band of incredible musicians backing her, Angie's vocals and lyrics cut through the bull malarkey and straight to the heart. Angie rocked CMJ in 2011; she dropped her first EP, Double Or Nothin' (recorded at Sabella Studios in Long Island) in June 2012. She and her band of minstrels, troubadours and other gunslingers continue to play routinely around the Lower East Side and Brooklyn. Urban cowgirl rock and roll, y'all.