They started writing songs after the deaths of their fathers when they were middle school students. Nia lost her dad just a year before the Babb sisters lost theirs. This mutually-shared grief made them closer than friends – they became three sisters instead of two. During this period of recovery and self-discovery at the height of adolescence, they wrote songs, played countless shows, and began touring.
Now they’re graduating from college and the grief that first brought them to music. Once their remedy for pain, folk music has become their recipe for joy. The recent release of their first full-length album, Words We Mean, chronicles their transition from youth to young womanhood, from grief to happiness, narrating the first chapter of their story. From: https://www.factoryshowroomseries.com/annie-oakley
