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The answer was One Woman Band.
For Volt, the rebirth as a solo performer wasn’t a decision made lightly. Since the early days, she’s been amusician who thrives on the buzz of the hook-up, surrounding herself with the best players and soaking uptheir vibe. Back in 2017, it was the Belgium-born songwriter’s taste forcollaboration that led her to New Orleans, for the meeting with local blues legends Mama’s Boys that became her smash-hit debut album, Let The Demons Out.
Two years later, it was that samespirit that luredVolt to the fabledhill country of Coldwater, Mississippi, to hold her own at second-albumsessions with greats likeCody Dickinson, Cedric Burnside, Lightnin’ Malcolmand Watermelon Slim.
With the breakout success of 2019’s Mississippi Blend – a record that broke into the Top 3 of the Billboard Blues Chart on three separate occasions – it seemed the world was Volt’s for the taking,her seven-year transformation from Brussels busker to the adopted daughter of American rootsgathering pace. Now, with One Woman Band, the journey takes a thrilling left-turn. Ifher apprenticeship on the mean streets taught Volt anything, it’s thatshe alreadyhadeverything she needed to make magic – and in March, she reconnected with that one-woman philosophy. “I started playing on a real drum set,” she recalls.“Playing a kick, snare and hi-hat plus a tambourine with my two feet, while playing slide/guitar and singing at the same time.”