Sweet Megg (Meaghan Farrell) is a country/blues/jazz singer/guitarist who got her start playing shows around Brooklyn. At 22 she moved to Paris to study jazz vocals, while also playing gigs across the city before coming back to New York. Soon after she released her debut jazz album 'Under the Moonlight' in 2020, leading to a record deal based in Paris, after which she relocated to Nashville and released her first original album, 'Christine's Daughter' in 2022 (the majority of her work seems to be re-imaginings of older jazz/country/swing songs and standards, often swapping their respective genres around). This led to two more albums in Nashville, and eventually to her touring globally with viral sensation Postmodern Jukebox from 2021-2023 (if you were on Youtube it's likely you saw one of their covers, eventually featuring a revolving door of featured musicians either doing renditions of old songs or turning modern songs into genre mashups).
Her (quartet) latest album, 'Massive Negroni' from May 2026 starts and ends with two original songs, "Right or Wrong pt.1&2", and the rest of it is covers ("re-imagining" might be more apt), such as Tom Waits, The Ink Spots, Duke Ellington, to deeper cuts like Kansas Joe McCoy.
Admittedly I'm a fairly opinionated person when it comes to covers for multiple reasons, both positively and negatively, but as this album was the introduction to her music (slight air quotes), I think it weighed more on the positive side, both by not attempting one-to-one covers and just the overall refinement of her band and voice. Also because I'm a sucker for old timey tunes and jazz vocalists keeping that spirit alive in the "modern" era. Without seemingly patronizing this any more than I am, probably the biggest praise I can give this album is that it has me excited to check out her original music. I believe 4 of her 7 full length albums feature original songs (she's also done lots of compilations), so I'm excited to check those out, as well as more of her interpretations and renditions with her fellow musicians.
Admittedly I'm a fairly opinionated person when it comes to covers for multiple reasons, both positively and negatively, but as this album was the introduction to her music (slight air quotes), I think it weighed more on the positive side, both by not attempting one-to-one covers and just the overall refinement of her band and voice. Also because I'm a sucker for old timey tunes and jazz vocalists keeping that spirit alive in the "modern" era. Without seemingly patronizing this any more than I am, probably the biggest praise I can give this album is that it has me excited to check out her original music. I believe 4 of her 7 full length albums feature original songs (she's also done lots of compilations), so I'm excited to check those out, as well as more of her interpretations and renditions with her fellow musicians.
