Elexa Dawson and Stanley Hotel - Sweet Sisters

Elexa Dawson and Stanley Hotel boast a brilliant collaboration in their forthcoming album, Wanderlust. “Sweet Sisters” is the first of two single offerings prior to the album release. Elexa relocated to Kansas 18 years ago, but happily traveled back “home” to the Oklahoma red dirt that raised her to record at Remote Records.
“Sweet Sisters” is a tribute to traditional “three sisters” gardening, written by Adam Stanley and Isaac Nelson, and produced by the pair, Elexa, and Doug Swindell. With Elexa’s soaring vocals on Stanley Hotel’s instrumentation, it features Elexa’s daughter and cousin, Carli and Annie Roberts on harmonies.

“I was honored that Adam and Isaac brought this song into the project for me to sing,” Dawson says. “It is completely on brand with where my work and energy has been directed the last few years. To bring my kids in to sing on the project was super special, having lost our Nana, who taught us to sing, during the recording of the album. I feel like it’s a full-circle moment.”

Elexa Dawson creates community focused music where sultry soul meets rural roots. Born from Oklahoma Potawatomi and Cherokee country, Elexa now calls the Kansas Flint Hills her home. Elexa's first solo album Music is Medicine (Lost Cowgirl Records) brought her storytelling to life through loveable lamentations. Her stirring performances connect land-based programming to folk stages. Two albums from Elexa’s primary ensemble, Weda Skirts, (Many Moons, Mother) offer immaculate harmonies, articulating themes of nature, kinship, passion, and place. Elexa also co-fronts Heyleon, a 7-piece, bluegrass-adjacent joyride, and released Heyleon's Friends & Family, Fiddle Road, and The Stranger on her label, Turns Out Records.

Stanley Hotel is a fluid Oklahoma-based indie rock outfit whose studio methods allow for a fully-formed, clean yet complex listening experience. Adam Stanley, Isaac Nelson, and Doug Swindell welcome the weird. Core releases such as The Moose (which features collaborator Elexa Dawson on backup vocals), The Wolf Told Me, and Samson Mammoth are complimented by diversified side-projects such as the self-titled Magna Contra and Repairman Noize.