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Intimacy, Fear, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves Daphne Parker Powell Announces "Speak No Evil" New Orleans singer, songwriter, and producer Daphne Parker Powell announces the release of her second single, “Speak No Evil,” arriving on all major streaming platforms February 27, 2026.
The track features acclaimed guitarist Eric Ambel, often referred to as “the Godfather of Americana,” and marks the latest offering from Powell’s forthcoming full-length album, due May 22. With Ambel’s seasoned touch guiding the arrangement, the single deepens the emotional terrain Powell has been steadily unveiling in recent months. Ambel, widely known for his work with Steve Earle and The Dukes, as well as contributions featured in The Color of Money, brings a restrained, resonant guitar presence that quietly amplifies the song’s introspective core. His playing never overwhelms; instead, it frames Powell’s voice with a subtle gravitas, allowing the emotional weight of the lyrics to breathe. The result is a collaboration that feels both grounded and searching, intimate yet expansive.
Rooted in reflection and emotional excavation, “Speak No Evil” arrives amid a growing cultural reckoning with generational trauma and its lingering imprint on the body and psyche. The song wrestles with how humans compartmentalize fear and pain to survive—and how those same survival mechanisms can later distort memory, truth, and intimacy. At its center is a question Powell poses with disarming vulnerability: “I sometimes ask myself whether I remember things as they were (or as Anaïs would query) as I was.” From there, she probes deeper—wondering how much of lived experience is filtered through fear, ego, or anger, and how often closeness becomes a conduit for hurt. Leaning into restraint rather than tidy resolution, “Speak No Evil” acknowledges that healing is not a distant goal but an urgent inheritance. “How can we heal it, for ourselves and our kids? There is nothing to wait for, it’s already ripe,” Powell reflects, underscoring the song’s quiet insistence that awareness itself is a form of action. Through emotional honesty and measured intensity, she invites listeners to sit with uncertainty, examine inherited wounds, and consider what it means to break cycles not just for ourselves, but for those who come after us.
Drums - Sam Colgate Electric Bass- John Kveen Electric Guitar - Jimbo Mathus, Eric 'Roscoe' Ambel Piano - Banjo Bergfeld Strings - Mr. Dr. Sick
Intimacy, Fear, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves Daphne Parker Powell Announces "Speak No Evil" New Orleans singer, songwriter, and producer Daphne Parker Powell announces the release of her second single, “Speak No Evil,” arriving on all major streaming platforms February 27, 2026.
The track features acclaimed guitarist Eric Ambel, often referred to as “the Godfather of Americana,” and marks the latest offering from Powell’s forthcoming full-length album, due May 22. With Ambel’s seasoned touch guiding the arrangement, the single deepens the emotional terrain Powell has been steadily unveiling in recent months. Ambel, widely known for his work with Steve Earle and The Dukes, as well as contributions featured in The Color of Money, brings a restrained, resonant guitar presence that quietly amplifies the song’s introspective core. His playing never overwhelms; instead, it frames Powell’s voice with a subtle gravitas, allowing the emotional weight of the lyrics to breathe. The result is a collaboration that feels both grounded and searching, intimate yet expansive.
Rooted in reflection and emotional excavation, “Speak No Evil” arrives amid a growing cultural reckoning with generational trauma and its lingering imprint on the body and psyche. The song wrestles with how humans compartmentalize fear and pain to survive—and how those same survival mechanisms can later distort memory, truth, and intimacy. At its center is a question Powell poses with disarming vulnerability: “I sometimes ask myself whether I remember things as they were (or as Anaïs would query) as I was.” From there, she probes deeper—wondering how much of lived experience is filtered through fear, ego, or anger, and how often closeness becomes a conduit for hurt. Leaning into restraint rather than tidy resolution, “Speak No Evil” acknowledges that healing is not a distant goal but an urgent inheritance. “How can we heal it, for ourselves and our kids? There is nothing to wait for, it’s already ripe,” Powell reflects, underscoring the song’s quiet insistence that awareness itself is a form of action. Through emotional honesty and measured intensity, she invites listeners to sit with uncertainty, examine inherited wounds, and consider what it means to break cycles not just for ourselves, but for those who come after us.
Drums - Sam Colgate Electric Bass- John Kveen Electric Guitar - Jimbo Mathus, Eric 'Roscoe' Ambel Piano - Banjo Bergfeld Strings - Mr. Dr. Sick
