Maia Sharp was raised in Los Angeles, but more latterly works out of Nashville. She has slotted into the latter’s songwriting fraternity with her songs being recorded by Trisha Yearwood, Cher, Bonnie Raitt, Art Garfunkel as well as Keb’ Mo’ and Taj Mahal (their recent single, Junkyard Dog), and a host of others.

Sharp’s work in general is gentle, introspective singer-songwriter fare; reflective tales covering relationships and observations of life. Some gained through personal experience, her confessional tones sneak into ones’ senses.

The poetic beauty of her music, vocals and melodies awash in innovative percussive additions (Eric Darken) consume the listener. Darken and Will Honaker (bass) provide the main support to multi-instrumentalist, Sharp (acoustic, baritone, electric guitar, piano, keyboards, synths, tenor sax).

Maia’s 10th solo album, Tomboy (due out September 12th, 2025) is the sound of shifting perspective. It is an ultra authentic, American-adjacent record steeped in quiet gratitude, internal celebration, and a complete embrace of true self.

Like all of her solo work, Tomboy resonates profoundly by being so real, so personal, and so eloquently written. Indeed, the new album multi-instrumentalist Sharp revisiting her famously compelling songcraft and relatable lyricism with a more rhythmic and playful approach - like the tingling joy of stepping into the unknown, secure in the belief that, whatever happens, all will be okay.

1. Tomboy
2. Counterintuition
3. Is That What Love Does
4. Only The Lucky
5. On The Edge Of The Weather Line
6. Asking For A Friend
7. Better Story
8. A Fool In Love Again
9. Any Other Way
10. Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

Awash with the poetic beauty of her music, vocals and melodies, Maia’s new album opens on the melodically enriched title track Tomboy and then we get the ariose Counterintuition (featuring flugelhorn and trumpet from Rod McGaha), the soothing balladry of Is That What Love Does and both the atmospheric Americana of Only The Lucky (featuring her father on steel guitar) and the sweeping On The Edge Of The Weather Line (a resonating tale about travelling along the highway and different weather situations, nothing dramatic; but of the kind you could parallel life).

Along next is the rhythmically upbeat Asking For A Friend (featuring Randy Sharp on electric, 12-string guitar) which is itself backed seamlessly by the beautiful ballad Better Story (co-written with Matthew Perry Jones), a stunning, synth-fueled ballad (and my own personal favorite track) A Fool In Love Again, the set rounding out on the gently impassioned Any Other Way (with backing vocals from Sarah Holbrook; and violins, and Shannon LaBrie; and piano), coming to an all too soon close on a fiercely rousing, yet sentimentally hued version of U2’s Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (featuring Garrison Starr on harmony vocals).

Maia Sharp - Tomboy [Official Music Video]

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