(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Country singer Zoe Muth brings her band, the Lost High Rollers, and her new batch of tunes from her brand-new album, “World of Strangers,” to Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, June 8, at 8pm. Muth’s clear, honest vocals and classic approach have garnered her comparisons to Loretta Lynn, John Prine, Emmylou Harris, Iris Dement, and Patty Griffin.

First making her name in the Pacific Northwest, where she’s been called “Seattle’s Emmylou,” and heralded as one of the best songwriters to come out of Washington State, Muth has spent the last three years touring across the U.S. and Europe. Playing bars and cafes as a young pre-school teacher, she saved up her minimum wage earnings and beer bucket tips to pay for her 2009 debut album, “Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers.” That album, along with her 2011 follow up, “Starlight Hotel,” went on to garner praise from the international press, and landed on No Depression’s “Top 50 Albums” list in their respective years.

Muth’s organic vocals harken back to a more innocent era before pop music and reality TV shows turned country music into a slick, commercial product. Her musical arrangements have one foot in 1950s Nashville and the other in the early country-rock experiments of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers. While Muth’s own songs sit comfortably aside her country music forebears, she’s equally as comfortable delivering renditions by songwriters as diverse as Ronnie Lane, Anna McGarrigle, Dock Boggs and Jerry Ragovoy in her inimitable country style.

This program is part of Helsinki Hudson’s commitment to presenting emerging and rising artists.