Elissa Mielke

In the artist’s words: Describe one of your earliest musical memories in detail. We didn't have TV so I'd go out to the woods or to the pond with my tape recorder and sing with the frogs, birds, and trees. In one tape recording I made at the chicken coop it sounded like the hens were harmonizing with me. It was all music. What are your top 3 all-time favorite albums on Apple Music, and why? Why did you choose these three albums in particular? Bill Withers, Just As I Am John Prine, John Prine Lucinda Williams, World Without Tears Bill Withers made this unbelievable album, greatest songs of all time, while working at a factory making airplane toilets; it's incredible. Humanity is in desperate need of John Prine's empathy. It's everything. Lucinda I don't have words for. Find a song of yours on Apple Music that you love and tell us what makes it special. Tell us why you chose this song. “Paper Moth Flame” Finding your own inner compass and strength is like a flame. It's quiet, fizzling, & agonizingly hard to make it grow. But that freedom is like fire and when it grows and you're free, really free, for the first time, that's wisdom and really living.