Faye Webster

ohnostalgia · May 14, 2017

No thread for Faye? This won't do. Where my alt-folkies at?

College wasn’t really the thing for 19-year-old singer songwriter Faye Webster. After attending Nashville’s Belmont University for a semester, the Atlanta-native decided to pursue a music career back home. “I would go to Atlanta almost every weekend and I had just met a group of friends -- a lot of them are in [Atlanta-based collective] Awful Records -- and that's just where I felt like I was supposed to be,” Webster tells Billboard.

She wasn't entirely new to music. In 2013, she released her first album, the folk-heavy Run & Tell. “My granddad is the one who really taught my brother and me about music, and he’s in a blue grass band in Texas,” Webster says of her distinct Americana roots. “He was definitely my main idol.”

But it’s Webster’s affinity for hip-hop that makes her country sound contemporary and unique. “Aaliyah is my number one everything,” she says about her R&B style influences. She’s covered Outkast and has totally transformed “Cheap Thrills” by Father -- Awful Records’ founder and rapper -- into an emotional ode to indie-folk. The singer’s friendship with rapper/producer Ethereal and the Awful crew, as well as her innovative sound, has earned her an official spot on the independent label’s roster.

Webster’s genre-defying music isn’t her only creative crossover — she’s gained recognition in Atlanta’s hip-hop scene for her Kehinde Wiley-esque photography of rappers like Lil Yachty, Migos’ Offset, and D.R.A.M. Inspired by a photography class she took at Belmont — “It’s mainly the only reason I’m glad I went,” she explains — Webster channels her quirky personal style and love of monochromes into her portraiture.
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http://www.billboard.com/articles/n...ul-records-faye-webster-is-folk-meets-hip-hop

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