Lera Lynn - Leeds

High & Lonesome presents
Lera Lynn
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Wednesday 12th December, 7.30pm. £14adv

Tickets via Jumbo Records, Crash Records and online via https://www.seetickets.com/event/lera-lynn/brudenell-social-club-leeds/1244904

Throughout
her career — a nearly decade-long run filled with three album releases,
a career-shifting appearance and soundtrack for HBO’s True Detective,
hundreds of shows on both sides of the Atlantic, and a sound
encompassing everything from Americana to stark indie rock — Lera Lynn
has balanced her fierce independence with a string of collaborations.

She's
written songs with T Bone Burnett and Rosanne Cash. She's recorded
albums with full bands (2014's The Avenues, hailed by outlets like
Rolling Stone and American Songwriter) and smaller lineups (the
experimental, NPR and New York Times-approved Resistor, which Lynn
co-produced at her Nashville home). On her fourth album, Plays Well With
Others, she teams up with eight different duet partners and seven
co-writers, resulting in her most diverse, collaborative work to date.

Plays
Well With Others is a unique duets album — one in which nearly every
song is completely co-written and co-sung. Peter Bradley Adams, John
Paul White, Dylan LeBlanc, Andrew Combs, Rodney Crowell, Shovels &
Rope, JD McPherson, and Nicole Atkins all make appearances, working
alongside Lynn not only to perform these songs, but to create them, too.

Lynn recorded Plays Well With Others at John Paul White's
studio, Sun Drop Sound, in Florence, Alabama. There — with Lynn, White,
and the Alabama Shakes' Ben Tanner all serving as co-producers — she
tracked nine songs in a series of live takes. Looking to add some sonic
framework to an album whose tracklist was vast and varied, she only used
acoustic instruments, layering upright piano, strings, percussion,
acoustic guitars, and creative sounds into arrangements that nodded to
artists like Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Neil Young, John Lennon and
Tom Petty. The result is an album that's at times more stripped-down
than The Avenues and far less amplified than Resistor, while still
shining a light on Lynn's striking voice and unique blend of American
music.

Appropriately, the nine songs on Plays Well With Others
tackle issues of the heart, from love to lust to loss. On the album's
haunting opener, "Same Old Song," Lynn and Peter Bradley Adams swap
harmonies from opposite sides of a broken relationship, both trying to
summon up the courage to sever ties completely. "What is Love" — a
gorgeous folk song recorded with Dylan LeBlanc — finds its two singers
questioning their own worth, while the Rodney Crowell collaboration
"Crimson Underground" unfolds like a conversation between the self and
the voice of temptation. There's also a coed cover of TV on the Radio's
"Wolf Like Me," performed with Shovels & Rope; a tribute to the
glory days of 1960s Roy Orbison with Nicole Atkins; a kinetic,
psychedelic "Breakdown" with Andrew Combs; and a pair of duets with John
Paul White, who first sang with Lynn during a handful of shared shows
in 2017.

With Plays Well With Others, Lera Lynn cements her own
identity as both creator and collaborator. On an album filled with
Grammy winners, country icons, folksingers, and Americana heroes, it's
still her star that shimmers the brightest, shining light on the newest
phase of an eclectic, ever-expanding career.

Promoting the new album Lera Lynn will make her way over to Russia and Europe for a string of intimate duo shows.

Press: "...her gorgeous Emmylou-like voice which wraps itself around the varied tone of her collaborators..." - Uncut Magazine

"Every tune is a keeper, and like the best artists, she leaves you wanting more." - American Songwriter

"Lynn has long been a singular voice in roots music. Now, with a few new
voices in the mix, hers somehow stands out more than ever." - NPR First
Listen

"Lynn and White trade lines over minor-key strums of
acoustic guitar while the music builds to an intense storm around them,
mirroring the characters' likely futile attempts to preserve some sense
of individuality – compelling evidence that Lynn and White are ideal
creative foils." - Rolling Stone

"Pensive and brooding, Lynn and
White beautifully wrap their voices around each other with sadness and
resignation, trading verses and exchanging lines, and coming together in
beguiling harmony." - Bruce Warren, WXPN/World Cafe