PUSHIN' AGAINST A-LPPushin' Against a Stone, Valerie June's Concord debut, is the fruit of over a decade of dues paying by the native Tennessean after three self released "bootleg" recordings. While her music is steeped in various musical traditions of the South blues, black and country gospel, soul, and Appalachian folk she combines them so idiosyncratically, with canny production from Kevin Agunas and Dan Auerbach, that they openly embrace the possibilities of pop.