Making year end lists always makes me feel really strange. I don’t really engage with music in that way – listening to everything right when it comes out. Even really trying, I know I can’t think of ...

This past summer was an important one for me: The latest season of The Righteous Gemstones came out and a new Squirrel Flower album was announced. Those two interests became interconnected, albeit not ...

Ella O'Connor Williams, or better known by her stage name Squirrel Flower doesn't run from vulnerability. From her biggest show to date, and a hometown show at that, in Chicago to recording her fifth ...

Squirrel Flower is the stage name and recording project of Chicago-based artist Ella Williams. Her fourth album ‘Tomorrow’s Fire’ was recorded in Asheville, N.C. and released last October. Since then, ...

While speaking with Ella Williams, known by her stage name as Squirrel Flower, it’s easy to see how the ideas of control have been on her mind lately. As paradoxical as control can be at certain times ...

Ella Williams, who makes music under the name Squirrel Flower, has always had a dichotomy to her music. Many of her songs could be described as indie folk, with lots of acoustic instrumentation but ...

"This little guy is someone we picked up on the road," Squirrel Flower, aka songwriter Ella Williams, says between songs, referencing a tiny toy alligator resting on her mic stand. The Chicago-based ...