The new front women of Country & Americana seem to be coming to the fore this year. Already we have had Lindi Ortega with her third album and lengthy live shows and now another lady from the Lucinda Williams school of Americana hits our senses with graveled vocals, a rockin’ band and songs of relationship blow ups!
Lydia Loveless is signed to Chicago’s Bloodshot Records, (which must be the perfect guitar band home) has just returned from SXSW (where Lucinda Williams was also playing) and now heads out on a lengthy U.S. tour over the next two months.
'Somewhere Else' is Lydia's second full length LP following on from 2011’s ‘Indestructible Machine’ and last year’s Crazy Boy EP. With an exceptionally powerful voice, that you could imagine blasting out at any venue with a crowd, beer in hand, rockin’ the joint.
Loveless was apparently raised on a family farm in Coshocton, Ohio with a Dad who owned a country music bar, Lydia the story goes, often woke up with a house full of touring musicians scattered on couches and floors. So that I guess was her introduction to music as a way of life and with influences from everyone from Charles Bukowski to Richard Hell to Hank Williams III, you can get a flavor of what this record is about.
A Bloodshot Records slogan is “Saving Country Music’” well with Lydia Loveless, they may well be doing just that. So track this gritty album down and you will have a companion all summer long.
By the way there is also a sweet cover of Kirsty MacColl’s ‘They Don’t Know’ on the record.
Pete
9/11
1. Really Wanna See You
2. Wine Lips
3. Chris Issak [Explicit]
4. To Love Somebody
5. Hurts So Bad
6. Head [Explicit]
7. Verlaine Shot Rimbaud [Explicit]
8. Somewhere Else [Explicit]
9. Everything's Gone [Explicit]
10. They Don't Know