Willing | Nicole Springer Band | EP

The process of creating her new project and recently released EP, Willing, was a process of sharing deep truths with others for Nicole Springer. While Springer has long been a musician and storyteller, embracing audiences with narrative-driven writing and guitar-heavy blues melodies, Springer recently decided to dedicate herself to her craft as a full-time artist. For the past year-and-a-half, Springer has crafted the debut release of The Nicole Spring Band, a young project that came together only a few months prior to WIlling’s release. The group of musicians in The Nicole Spring Band, many of whom have a history of playing heavy metal, have quickly became a folk-rock foursome with a nostalgic heart, reminiscent of 90s alternative rock. 

In Willing, Springer looks inward at her experience as an openly gay person living in America in 2019, navigating complicated familial relationships and the resulting inner conflict. Though Springer’s words are intensely personal, they’re also very relatable to anyone who experienced stressful relationships and disheartening conversations because of a facet of their identity. Springer’s work is a reminder that though we all live our own individual lives, often communities are united by common experiences and that even across lines of difference, the need to find familiarity and understanding is universal.

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