Locals Only Concert – Canyon & Riley Cotton
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 7:30pm
Locals Only
Milford Arts Council
Locals Only
The Texas transplant Americana singer has been described as “…An old-school type of songwriter whose songs and performance are able to cross space and time to touch that part of your brain where love, loss, happiness, and longing all co-exist”.
The New England Music Award nominee finds beauty amid loss, upheaval, and betrayal.
Acclaimed Connecticut singer/songwriter Riley Cotton today released “Falling Of The Fervor,” a six-song EP, available everywhere on November 8th. Cotton’s first collection of original music since 2022’s full-length “A House With Blue Siding,” she characterizes it as a collection of strength and confidence.
“Since ‘Blue Siding,’ I’ve had a lot of people tell me that my voice is bigger than I’ve allowed it to be,” Cotton says. “I went through a lot in those two years — ending a relationship, leaving one town for another — and I had to grow to make sense of the changes. ‘Falling Of The Fervor’ chronicles that growth, and the places I had to go within myself for it to be possible.”
Indeed, “Falling Of The Fervor” finds Cotton digging deep — into her own psyche, and into the psyches of the people close to her. In “Blind Eye,” she tries and fails to ignore a nagging impulse to leave a bad situation. In “Free Man In Utah,” she critiques someone whose “freedom” depends on an inability to pursue their passion. Throughout, Cotton’s voice is the rich centerpiece of a folk-rock soundscape reminiscent of idols Gillian Welch and Brandi Carlile — framed by brushed snares, wreathed in plucked and strummed acoustic guitars, honeyed by pedal steel.
Listen to “Falling Of The Fervor” on all streaming platforms.
“If asked at the beginning of the year what my most anticipated album from a CT artist was in 2024 the first name that would come to mind was Riley Cotton… I had a deep-seated feeling this record was going to be top notch. My intuition was rewarded. Every now and then you hear a record from an artist and think, ‘this is the record that’s going to put them on the map’. That’s the kind of potential harnessed on The Falling of the Fervor. ”
— Top Connecticut Albums 2024 | The Metal Dad
“Her transcendence is coming on fast and her light shines irreversibly into those dark corners.”
— The Westerly Sun
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