A SHEROES Journey: Daughter of Swords

from SHEROES · host Carmel Holt & Talkhouse

Alex Sauser-Monnig who records and performs as Daughter of Swords recently released their second album, Alex, and they join Carmel Holt this week to talk about why acoustic music was initially a more comfortable sonic world to live in for them - both in their trio Mountain Man, and on their 2019 debut Dawnbreaker - and breaking free of those limits while simultaneously investigating and expanding the definition of how they live and support themself as an independent artist.

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