Amaya Pena
Squirrel Flower’s latest album, Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going, captures every emotion of life on the road: annoyed grit on “Sick Tooth,” windowpane longing on “Surfing USA,” semi-mystical mythologizing on “Highway Woman,” sing-along self-reliance on “Cleveland,” and somber yearning to stop for longer than a night on “Reelin.” Onstage, the dynamic saga moves from grunge-inspired to folk-vulnerable and back again, never losing the project’s spellbinding storytelling ethos. Read the Chronicle’s conversation with Squirrel Flower online. – Caroline Drew