Geographically, it’s a long way from the sticky-floored rehearsal spaces of Motor City to the Roman-era cobblestone streets of Bath in southwest England. But it doesn’t take a musicologist to join the dots between Greta Van Fleet’s levee-breaking classic rock and the punchy folk-blues of Ida Mae.
The heavy-roots duo – Chris Turpin (guitar) and Stephanie Jean Ward (vocals), who met as students at Bath Spa University and married in 2016 – was born from the rubble of an earlier outfit, Kill It Kid.
