Miko Marks, a country singer/songwriter, hit a snag after the release of her 2007 album, “It Feels Good.” She felt so defeated by the lack of support as a Black female artist trying to break through in an overwhelmingly white male industry that she left the genre entirely.
But now, 13 years later, Marks is making a comeback on her own terms. ” Our Country,” her first album since It Feels Good, was released on Redtone Records/Brooklyn Basement Records on Friday (March 26).
She’s gone for socio-political statements embedded in a roots-oriented, gospel-soaked sound this time, rather than the country-pop hooks found on her two albums released in the mid-2000s (2005’s Freeway Bound preceded It Feels Good). The 10 songs on the new album deal with social inequality, division, abuse, and police brutality.
