Rolling Stone has called Miko Marks’ voice a “marvelous instrument that imbues each song with a kind of hard-won authority.” It’s an authority Marks has earned across a career defined by resilience, reinvention, and a refusal to let the music industry dictate where she belongs. Now, following several years of remarkable professional momentum and profound personal change, Marks enters a new chapter with Hell Or High Water, her first blues album, set for release on October 30 via Redtone Records.
Hell or High Water
New Album Out
October 30th
Hell Or High water (official LYRIC video)
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
FESTIVALS:
Stagecoach
Ottawa Blues Fest
AMERICANAFEST
Redwood Ramble
Live Oak
High Sierra
Ten Mile Creek Revival
Edmonton Folk Fest
Calgary Folk Fest
Bear Creek Folk Fest
Winnipeg Folkfest
Red Wing Roots
Green River
Ogden Music Fest
Spring Skunk
Merlefest
FreshGrass Fest
Ravinia
In Between Days Fest
The Long Road (UK)
SUPPORT FOR:
Tedeschi Trucks
Little Feat
Marc Broussard
Blind Boys of Alabama
Ron Pope
Duane Betts
Allen Stone
PERFORMED WITH:
Little Feat
Molly Tuttle
Buddy Miller
Margo Price
Trè Burt
Amy Helm
Fantastic Negrito
Rissi Palmer
PRESS + CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
"From the determined opening of Ain’t Nobody Gonna Bring Me Down to the closing track Freedom, the album’s central message remains consistent: difficult experiences do not have to determine what the future will become."
“With electrifying intensity, Miko Marks helped put an exclamation point on the 2026 Americana Music Festival & Conference with her colorful 3rd & Lindsley set… Marks, a modern blues artist with a touch of delta mystique and a West Coast charm, preached tenacity and healing alongside red-hot harmonica solos and guest artist Colin Linden, whose slide resonator once again showed how AmericanaFest brings roots-music tradition into the present tense."
-THE TENNESSEAN, BEST MOMENTS FROM AMERICANAFEST 2026
“Marks has arrived at her true self, and musical moment; unencumbered and joyful, she’s standing on her own two feet.”
"...we experience one of our finest contemporary singers tearing into these songs with the fiery attitude and strutting power that makes this music, no matter how often you hear it interpreted, such a visceral and explosive experience."
"What Marks achieves with her style here is something that many artists try but fail...Marks can fit seamlessly into a purposefully vintage backdrop because her voice and delivery are so effortlessly timeless."
“Feel Like Going Home...stands as the most stirring country-soul release of the year. The centerpiece of the set is Marks’ voice, a marvelous instrument that’s absorbed and synthesized styles of singing from church, the coffee shops, the honky-tonks, the juke joints, and beyond, and imbues each song with a kind of hard-won authority.”
-ROLLING STONE, 25 BEST COUNTRY & AMERICANA ALBUMS, #12
“Marks and her backing band, The Resurrectors, craft a remarkably enjoyable sound that blends country, blues, rock, gospel, and soul and is infused with an inspiring vitality. Feel Like Going Home is rooted in Marks maintaining hope and her dedication to peace. Again and again she returns to goodness and the possibility that things will work out, but it never feels repetitive because being hopeful takes a lot of work.”
-NO DEPRESSION, BEST ROOTS ALBUMS OF 2022, #5
“This song is a bridge linking the old America, where spirituals arose as maps toward liberation, and the blues that came from those journeys — and the new kind of country music artists like Marks are creating today. The grit in her majestic voice speaks of those other journeys, lost and found.”
-NPR, “THE OTHER SIDE” IN THE BEST ROOTS MUSIC OF 2022
“Feel Like Going Home… is a thrilling history lesson. As with last year’s stunning Our Country — the Michigan native’s triumphant return after a 14-year break from recorded music — Feels Like Going Home finds Marks pulling deeply from the well of Southern music and drawing attention to the ways that country, folk, blues and gospel all overlap, pushing back on the idea that these traditions were ever that separate to begin with.”
Won Female Country Soul Artist of the Year for the Origin Impact Awards in 2025
“Feel Like Going Home” album hit Top 5 at Americana Radio
Featured in The Country Music Hall of Fame’s “American Currents” exhibit in 2023
Included in CMT’s Next Women of Country
Co-headliner for the Trailblazing Women of Country tour
Signed to Redtone Records in 2020
Featured on Alice Randall’s “My Black Country” album
Debuted at The Grand Ole Opry in 2022