Maia has released ten lush, Americana-influenced singer-songwriter albums since 1997 and has collaborated with artists like Art Garfunkel, Bonnie Raitt, and Trisha Yearwood, and been covered by Cher, Paul Carrack, etc.

We discuss “Counterintuition” (and listen to the title track) from Tomboy (2025), “Phoenix” from The Dash Between the Dates (2015), and “A Home” from Fine Upstanding Citizen (2005) (co-written with her father Randy Sharp and popularized in a cover version by The Chicks). Intro: “I Need This to Be Love” from Hardly Glamour (1997). More at maiasharp.com.

Watch the video for “Tomboy”, and a new lyric for another new song, “Only Lucky.” Hear all of “I Need This to Be Love.” Another single of hers that I really like is “Kind.”

Watch her perform a full solo set. Watch her perform with Bonnie Raitt and with Art Garfunkel. Here’s the song Maia wrote that was recorded by Cher. Watch Maia pitching her NYU songwriting classes.

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NEM#237: Maia Sharp’s Homey Subversion