Elles Bailey is an British singer, songwriter, and bandleader from Bristol. Her work is a contemporary hybrid of raw blues-rock, rough-hewn blue-eyed soul, and stirring gospelized Americana, all delivered with a forcefully expressive, deeply smoky instrument existing at the crossroads of Janis Joplin, Maggie Bell, and Kim Carnes. Wildfire, her 2017 debut album was recorded in Nashville with some of its finest session talent. 2019's Road I Call Home topped the U.K. blues charts and attained a Top Three finish at streaming. She took home prizes for Album of the Year and Artist of the Year at 2020's British Blues Awards. During the pandemic, Bailey tracked a third studio album in 2021 while six months pregnant. She completed it just days before birthing her first child. Titled Shining in the Half Light, the studio set was released in February 2022.