St. Louis-based singer-songwriter Beth Bombara will perform at Barleycorn's Tuesday, Jan. 21, on a bill with Joey Lemon and Samantha Crain. Bombara's 2019 album Evergreen earned accolades from the critical community and further established her as a recording and touring entity. She recently spoke with KMUW about the album and her ongoing friendship with Crain. At times Evergreen recalls Neil Young or Emmylou Harris albums from the '70s. Were those touchstones for you? My intention was to harken back to some of those albums. A happy medium between the cool, vibe-y stuff that was going in the '70s and now. How was it that Evergreen became the title cut? It was the song, to me, that thematically summarized what I felt like I wanted the album to be about. The energy that I wanted to put out. A more optimistic [point of view]. Life happens and I'm going to take the approach that I'm going to look at things in a positive light. Things might happen and I'm going to be constantly looking for