Violet Wild is carving out a space on the alt-90s edge of Americana. The northern Colorado singer-songwriter delivers powerful vocals and percussive guitar that evoke both Alanis Morissette and Joni Mitchell. Her sound is shaped by the harmony she learned from Simon & Garfunkel songbooks as a child, and the Santana bass lines she played on sousaphone in marching band. Since 2017, she's played in bands in the Front Range live music scene. Now she performs with Rob Myers on upright bass and Bill Aspinwall on guitars.
Violet's debut single, "Steal My Body," reimagines the legend of Gram Parsons' death in Joshua Tree as a meditation on love, friendship, desert bonfires, and where we want our ashes scattered. Her latest track, "Hey Thelma,” dropped in March 2026. It was inspired by the friendship in Thelma and Louise, but in Violet’s version, the friends get to keep on driving.
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Gram Parsons told his friends that he wanted his ashes scattered in Joshua Tree. I want my ashes scattered in Zion. Both are illegal desires.


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