By college, she was booking her own tours and gigging regionally across the state. It felt like the perfect album title for these songs." Davis' independent streak began in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she began writing songs at 12 years old. I see a lot of parallels with the way I have felt most of my life. "They can be beautiful with bright-colored flowers on them, but if you touch them, they will hurt you. "Cacti are independent plants that sustain themselves," she explains.
Like the desert plant that lends the album it's title, she doesn't need help from others to grow tall. If The Token's own songs were vulnerable and diary-like, their lyrics pulled from Davis' past romances, then Cactus turns a new leaf, with Davis taking pride in her status as a single, self-sufficient adult woman. Here, she moves between lush alt-country and stripped-down folk confessionals, gluing everything together with story-driven songs about independence, liberation, and resilience as an adult woman.
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Released two years after The Token - Davis' 2016 debut, whose electrified roots-rock sound earned praised from outlets like Rolling Stone Country, Noisey, and The Wall Street Journal - Cactus shows the full range of her songwriting. "Round here, you can be however you wanna be," Elise Davis sings at the end "33," one of 10 self-empowered southern anthems from her newest album, Cactus.
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