Roots Music Report

About the Album

Called “a combination of Wanda Jackson, Dolly Parton, The Chicks and Wilson Phillips” (Adventures in Americana), the Foxgloves are a Minneapolis-based, all-female, six-piece band with country, classical and folk roots. Exploding onto the bluegrass and Americana music scene, they have been wowing audiences with their impressive four-part harmonies and unique instrumentation that includes harp, ukulele, violin, guitar, bass and all manner of percussion.

The band began when ukulele player Steph Snow posted on a women’s music page about wanting to start an all-female folk/bluegrass/ Americana/country/folk/bluegrass band. Responding to the post, a gathering of women met up at the St. Paul neighborhood dive bar Como Tap to talk about possibilities — and the conversation never stopped. From that informal gathering in 2019, the band has quickly become one of the most in-demand acts in the Upper Midwest.

Their first full-length album, Mama Was a Bandit, displays the band’s “unique storytelling abilities with a collection of songs that run the gamut from country to folk, from heartbreaking to hell-raising,” said Carol Roth of Adventures in Americana. “[The album] is as eclectic as the ladies that make up the Foxgloves, funny and tough and lighthearted and sad by turns. It’s an album that could only have been created by this group of artists and would never be mistaken as anyone else’s music. In the crowded field of Americana, that’s the highest compliment I can pay any album or any act.”