After a smashing debut in Newport this summer, All Female Front heads North on MA-24 for a sophomore party at the Sinclair on Jan. 20. The gig looks to highlight rising female talent from New England and beyond. Because the night is stacked — go early, see everyone — let’s dig into a nice starting point for each artist, a single song to make you a newly devout fan.

“Hurricane,” Julie Rhodes

Boston-born, Woburn-raised Julie Rhodes doesn’t feel Boston-born, Woburn-raised. No shade to local towns, but Rhodes could have come up in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in the ’60s or Memphis in the ’50s or New Orleans in the ’30s. Go listen to “Hurricane” and tell me it wasn’t written by Otis Redding or Gregg Allman or Memphis Minnie.  Oh, and tell me the Electric Co. isn’t an Alabama swamp band from half a century past.

“The Americans,” Mary-Elaine Jenkins

“The Americans” starts as an acoustic blues simmer. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter-guitarist channels her South Carolina roots for a hypnotic twang and stomp. But it’s the lyrics — and her hushed, growling delivery of those lyrics — that crush you. Deep into the tune, Jenkins drops the tempo a slinky crawl and sings, “Something in our bones dressed up like love/Don’t forget that kind of thing is recreational for us/I won’t tell if you won’t/It’s nobody’s business what we do.” Get hooked then get debut LP “Hold Still.”

“Where I Got Lost,” The Wolff Sisters

Speaking of lyrics, how about these? “For you I’d stand up to the king of death/Now I’m hanging on to faith like their ain’t none left from here to salvation.” Now pair the lines with a tremendous Americana crescendo that drives right into a honky tonk piano break that then gives way to a ripping slide guitar solo. The Boston-born-and-based Wolff Sisters mixed New England folk, Southern rock and ’60s-style California country on 2019’s “Queendom of Nothing.” With 2022 LP “Dark River,” which features “Where I Got Lost,” they keep what worked last time and add Celtic bits, New Orleans detours and Stevie Nicks vibes.

“Anger Room,” The Devil’s Twins

Leave to Lucifer to have a pair of rowdy, raucous, raw twins. Leave it to those twins — singer Nicole Marie Coogan and singer-guitarist Jeremiah John Louf — to find another pair that match their energy. Saxophonist Aitan Ben-Joseph and trumpet player Eric Ortiz lend new album “Horns” (get it?) some fresh mischief. “Anger Room” screams with garage punk roar and Southern soul thump.

“Another Life,” Mary McAvoy

This 2023 single fits into a wonderfully small space to squeeze into. It’s both a big ballad that could work on a modern country album and a straight pop single and a nuanced, finely tuned piece of songcraft. But that makes sense considering McAvoy’s growing catalog of, well, big ballads, tight pop, and nuanced, finely tuned pieces of songcraft.

Julie Rhodes (Photo Gary Alpert)

Mary McAvoy (Photo Katie Ingle)

Mary-Elaine Jenkins (Photo David Barnum)