We’ve been charting the ascent of Otoe-Missouria songwriter Sierra Spirit since she released her debut single back in February. Barely half a year later and the Connecticut-based musician has revealed that she’s signed with Giant Music off the strength of her alt-country leaning indie-rock confessionals. She’s also keeping that momentum going with her fourth single dropping today, “i’ll be waiting (pug),” a gentle and heartfelt appreciation for her late grandmother on the Cherokee side of her family who went by the song’s parenthetical nickname.
“When my parents were just starting off as new parents working long hours my grandma helped play a part in raising me,” Spirit explained. “She picked me up from school every day, took me for drives on the reservation often, and told me Cherokee folk stories—that was our moments together. She fell suddenly ill at the end of my time in high school and I got the call from my mom that she didn’t have much time and we’d be going to the hospital to say our goodbyes. How can I thank someone for a lifetime of love in an evening? It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done being there with her while she passed. I wrote this song about that evening—‘how do you spend a lifetime in a night?’”
Watch the video for the track below.
