Saturday, September 30, 2023

“French Restaurant”, Lydia Loveless

This way: French Restaurant

Lydia Loveless is an American alternative country singer-songwriter from Columbus, Ohio. Her music combines pop music, classic country, honky tonk, and punk rock.

Her family is musical: Loveless' father was a pastor, drummer, and later country-western bar owner for a time. She and her sisters played several instruments. Loveless took piano lessons, then began trying to play the guitar at 12.

In 2012, signed with Bloodshot and determined to make a more raw and edgier album, she released Indestructible Machine with songs that feature themes of frustration with her hometown, drinking, depression, and a humorous song about being stalked by a man who referred to himself as Steve Earle but was not in fact the singer of Copperhead Road. Loveless recorded the album with many live takes and a minimum of overdubs at Grove City, Ohio’s Sonic Lounge recording studio with engineer Joe Viers. Spin characterized the record as standing out "for its utter lack of bullshit", with "roaring vocals, in her narrators' lived-in-bars recklessness, and in her overall inability to mince words." 

[Spotify] French Restaurant

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