“Seeing Superfrye play solo is like walking into an episode of Twin Peaks”
~audience member
“Watching her up there on stage with a band you can just tell she’s loving it. Laughing
and smiling as she riffs away on her guitar it’s fun to watch, her enthusiasm is infectious. “
~audience member
Imagine if Johnny Cash, Patti Smith, NIck Cave, T Bone Walker and Bob Dylan got together to write a song for Twin Peaks- That’s Superfrye’s music.
Superfrye is a traveller, a nomad. She has travelled with the circus, spent years living in National Parks, lived on three continents and when she sits still she travels through her music.
Her songs reflect the terroir of every place she’s been, every year she’s lived and are illustrated by lyrics about empowerment, rebellion, truth and freedom.
Her original music could be called folk music in that it comes from the ground and the grit. It is written for the working people, the survivors that get knocked down and keep getting up over and over and over. The sound underpinning the stories she tells centers around a reverb drenched guitar in a vast catalog of originals and covers, constantly toying with the edges of emotion from passionately haunting to hilarious and fun.
The Superfrye sound was born out of flamenco, rockabilly and blues but has travelled as far as lounge, R&B, surf and disco.
One of her most profound musical journeys was the one that took her into the heart of the blues scene on Chicago’s west side. She spent countless nights at a Wicker Park bbq joint listening to a group of young blues players tearing it up. The seats were filled with legendary blues men who would often sit in with the band. These older musicians played with Jimmy Reed, Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf . Although she grew up in Chicago she never heard blues this real or raw. She followed that band right into the neighborhoods where that music was born and where the people who came to hear it were those who lived it. It was the music of another time and another place, even if that place was only 4 miles west. It was a music that filled the holes in your soul where you were blown apart .
“ Every one of us in that bar was torn up in some kinda way, but that music was like a healing salve that brought us all together. “
~ Superfrye
What she learned from these seasoned musicians was beyond chords and rhythm but about tenacity, strength and telling the truth. The music was woven into the fabric of their lives so intricately that one could not exist without the other. That is where the blues fits into Superfrye’s music, it is that feeling that she brings into it, whether the song is country tinged, funk or straight up blues, that feeling that talks to the broken parts and says- it’s ok, you are not alone. It is ok, to feel not ok. Tell the truth!
Superfrye is an accomplished and innovative performer. She has played all over Chicago both solo and with a band. She had a three year residency at Rojo Gusano in Ravenswood . During those three years she also fronted the host band at the open mic she built up at Artifact Events. Pre-pandemic she had been working on getting into the Nashville scene and had performed at writer’s nights and solo at breweries and pubs in and around Nashville and neighboring states. During the pandemic she held shows off her balcony, online and in the public parks with her band the Valiant 72’s where she kept people’s spirits up through music and laughter.
Superfrye is currently working on a new album, “I Fell In Love In Nashville and All I Got Was This Crumby Album Full Of Break-Up Songs” scheduled for release in Winter 2021. The single and video “Don’t Count On Me” , a dark but hopeful tale of love and loss , `will be out this summer.