Anna Vogelzang’s independent folk path through Hiker and Afterglow
Anna Vogelzang is a US folk singer-songwriter whose releases show a long-running independent practice. In Magnet, she says she had “no alternate career path” and that she has been “playing guitar and singing my whole life.” The same profile notes that Hiker was made live in one week and calls it her 10th album for her own label, Paper Anchor. A later interview describes Afterglow as a 2025 record made in Nashville with Anthony da Costa and framed around rebuilding after major life changes. For a first listen, start with King & Queen and The Light, two tracks that help place her recent work in that documented arc.
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