Sure, making ones late-night television debut is nice, but you really know you made it when you hear your name announced in the dulcet tones ofJeff Goldblum.
Nashvilles new guitar hero, the 18-year-oldGrace Bowers, performed with her band, the Hodge Podge, onJimmy Kimmel Live!on Monday night, roaring through a funky version of her song Tell Me Why U Do That.
It was a fun, breezy performance the track appears on Bowers and the Hodge Podges new albumWine on Venus that helped illustrate why theres so much buzz around Nashville by way of the California musician.
Grace Bowers made her ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ debut this week.Steve Jennings/Getty Images
Playing her Gibson SG, slung over her shoulder with a strap that read Vote, Bowers cut a stoic figure, the cool, quiet complement to the Hodge Podges smoldering singer Esther Okai-Teteh.
Bowers and the band released their debut LP,Wine on Venus, produced by Brothers Osborne guitarist John Osborne, last week.
Shell compete for Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2024 Americana Music Association Honors & Awards next month in Nashville.
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Since first turning up on the scene last year, Bowers has seen her star rise via various onstageappearances: She played 2023sNewport FolkFestival, jammed with Lainey Wilson at Nashvilles New Years Eve bash in December, and headlined her own benefit concert for gun violence at Nashvilles Brooklyn Bowl this summer.
On Tuesday night, shell play an album release show at the Desert 5 Spot in Los Angeles and will open dates for Gary Clark Jr. and the Red Clay Strays in September.
And now shes heard Goldblum one of Kimmels guest hosts while the comedian takes the summer off introduce her in his own idiosyncratic way.
