Long Mama
Performing Saturday, June 28
Long Mama’s music blisters with the heart and grit of someone who has lost hard, loved harder, and licked her burns until they stung then silvered. In a drafty attic just west of the Milwaukee River she grew up on, you’ll find songwriter Kat Wodtke raking through notebooks in search of a salve: words, stories, and sounds to temper the dumpster fires we never mean to light. The band’s debut album, Poor Pretender, has been called “a winner all the way” (Country Music People Magazine) and “gently crafted perfection” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).