Queen of Time Lindsay Lou

• 1 Nothing Else Matters 03:20
• 2 Nothing's Working 03:32
• 3 I Can Help 03:55
• 4 On Your Side (Starman) 03:01
• 5 Love Calls 05:32
• 6 Queen Of Time 03:53
• 7 Rules 02:37
• 8 Needed 02:46
• 9 Shame 04:31
• 10 This Too Shall Pass 00:44
• 11 Silent 03:45
• Total Runtime 37:36

Info zu Queen of Time

Nashville artist Lindsay Lou’s captivating vocals are capable of untold multitudes: a molasses-sweet instrument equally capable of clarion ache, slicing deep into the soul. The daughter of a literal coal-miner and millwright, and the granddaughter of a teacher gone Rainbow Gathering healer, Lou honed her honest and resonant style with her bluegrass-inspired band, Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys, and Michigan supergroup, Sweet Water Warblers (Rachael Davis, May Erlewine), excavating elements of bluegrass, folk, Americana, and soulful pop for their emotional depths. Whether bathing in the radiant sunset of Tennessee or digging into the rich loam of her midwest upbringing, Lou has an innate ability to bring an immediacy to both affairs of the heart and philosophical thought. On her new album Queen of Time, Lou captures a new arc of haloed beauty, becoming unattainable in her own way—a vibrant, powerful woman who can share herself with the world, and yet define a mystic sense of inner self as well.

“I saw a literal manifestation of the sacred feminine, and had this profound sense that I was meant to embody it,” recalls celebrated singer-songwriter Lindsay Lou after journeying through a hallucinogenic ritual that would inform the way she processed waves of grief in the sea of change ahead of her. The loss of her grandmother, the end of her marriage, and the overwhelming turmoil of COVID lockdowns found the Nashville-based artist on a spiritual journey of self-knowledge and healing with this gift from the mystic swirl. On her new album Queen of Time, Lou explores that quest across ten tracks of tender, heartbreakingly beautiful music. Featuring a gamut of guests including GRAMMY® Award-winners Billy Strings and Jerry Douglas, Queen of Time celebrates love and loss, but above all, the art of living as an unattainably—a vibrant, powerful woman who can share herself with the world, and yet define a mighty sense of inner self as well.

“Guided by life experiences, Lindsay Lou's sound and songwriting continues to evolve and intertwine her sturdy Bluegrass roots with progressive Americana and Folk.” – PBS

"Having built a fan base that included many colleagues with her genre-crossing bluegrass group Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys and a role in the harmony-vocal folk trio the Sweet Water Warblers, Nashville-based Michigander Lindsay Lou went solo with the even more genre-blending Southland in 2018. She continues to dip into alt-country, bluegrass, folk, rock, and more on the singer/songwriter-oriented follow-up, Queen of Time, her Kill Rock Stars label debut. Among the album's first impressions are its effortlessly intricate musicianship and the fact that it's remarkably warm and striding given that its songs were inspired by a period that included loss, divorce, and the arrival of a career-threatening pandemic. The track list opens with one of its two covers, the affectionate and poignant "Nothing Else Matters," a song written by friends Maya de Vitry and Phoebe Hunt that Hunt sent to Lindsay Lou to learn for a gig. With lyrics including "I don't need to live forever to know I'll always love you," the song immediately connected with her, and the Queen of Time version features expert accompaniment to Lou and her band by Dobro player Jerry Douglas (who earns a feature credit here) and mandolinist Dominick Leslie (Béla Fleck, Molly Tuttle). Next, a rare melancholy entry, "Nothing's Working," features Billy Strings. The clouds soon part with the second cover, an appropriately cheerful version of Billy Swan's "I Can Help." The tone remains uplifting and thoughtful throughout the rest of Queen of Time, as it traverses breezy folk-rock (the title track), lively bluegrass ("Rule"), lush soft rock ("Shame"), and countrified close-harmony song ("Silent") as well as tracks featuring recorded conversations with Lou's down-to-earth grandmother. All told, it's a lovely, accomplished set of songs that offers compassion and wisdom in the face of adversity." (Marcy Donelson, AMG)

Lindsay Lou, acoustic guitar, vocals Anthony da Costa, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, Juno synths, background vocals PJ George III, upright bass, electric bass, piano, organ, djembe, background vocals Alex Bice, drums, bongos, triangle, background vocals Jerry Douglas, dobro on “Nothing Else Matters” Billy Strings, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals on “Nothing’s Working”; electric guitar on “Shame” Anders Beck, dobro on “Nothing’s Working” Eddy Dunlap, pedal steel on “On Your Side (Starman)” Phoebe Hunt, violin, background vocals on “Silent” Dominick Leslie, mandolin on “Nothing Else Matters” and “Needed” Royal Massat, upright bass on “Rules” Mimi Naja, mandolin, background vocals on “Rules” Joshua Rilko, mandolin on “On Your Side (Starman)”, “Love Calls” and “Silent” Matt “Mr. Jimmy” Rowland, Rhodes piano on “Silent” Kyle Tuttle, banjo, background vocals on “Rules” Melody Walker, background vocals, pandeiro, caxixi on “Love Calls”

Produced by Dave O’Donnell
Recorded at Sound Emporium’s Studio B in Nashville, TN

Lindsay Lou
has been making soulful, poignant music for the last decade. An undeniable powerhouse, Lou’s remarkable gifts as a singer, songwriter, musician and performer demand the listener’s attention. Her singing floats over the masterful playing and deep groove of her band with both a fierce intensity and a tender intimacy.

Lindsay Lou’s fourth album, Southland (released April 2018), is a transformative and heart-wrenching ten-song stunner. Lou’s voice—and its unique ability to create an expansive, almost physically tangible soundscape—carries each song on Southland forward, made even more recognizable and potent by bandmates Josh Rilko (mandolin, vocals) and PJ George (bass, vocals) and special guests.

The beauty with which the sounds on Southland slip into the ether is the product of an emotionally difficult time for Lindsay and her band—who, as musicians often do, entered the studio to “hash it out.” The process, demonstrated by the music on Southland, was sincere and stirring and introspective.

Southland kicks off with “Roll With Me,” an expansive anthem with Lou’s robust vocals on full display. “Go There Alone” was written during an “Immersion Composition Society” experiment that Lou does from time to time, and the sound fully developed with the band a little later on. The lazy, beautiful harmonies pull at your heartstrings in a way that feels like home, despite the lonely and bittersweet message. And though songs like “The Voice” and “Southland” were spurred on by more abstract ideas and words, they transformed as collaborators started freestyling with their instruments and Lou simply sang what came to mind. Impressively enough, Lou plays electric bass, electric guitar, and acoustic guitar on the album’s title track. “Southland” is about the natural beauty of the South, which to Lou, adds a sense of calm and connectedness to a region known too often for its divisiveness. Having recently left her home state of Michigan to put down roots in Nashville with the band, the influence of this change is felt throughout the themes and ideas expressed on Southland.

Born the daughter of a coal miner in middle Missouri, Lindsay Lou’s family moved to Michigan shortly after Lindsay was born. She describes her family as close knit and musical, their lives influenced heavily by her maternal grandmother’s radical ideals and zest for life. In fact, if you ask Lindsay, her grandmother—a woman who was once put in jail during the Civil Rights Movement for teaching a lesson on the “f” word as a high school literature teacher—is one of her greatest influences to this day. Armed with her activist spirit, Lou’s grandmother set up a Christian commune in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for her growing family of twelve, as well as some stragglers. There in a big farmhouse, Lou’s dad was their neighbor.

Raised with this sense of community, Lou recalls always being surrounded by music. So when the time came for her to join a band, for Lou, it felt like finding a home away from home. Her career, like her life, have been full of great moments of kismet. As a youth, Lou built her repertoire by practicing her vocals, and she picked up the guitar so she could play with her Uncle Stuckey, perhaps most musically influential on her of her mother’s siblings. The skills she honed during the days of learning to sing and play with her family led to a wide variety of musical opportunities, singing in choir in high school, attending an elite summer program at Interlochen on scholarship, and winning awards for her talents.

Today, touring nationally and internationally year round, Lindsay Lou and her band continue to collect a mass of friends and fans along the way. Notable U.S. festival plays include Telluride Bluegrass festival, Merlefest, Stagecoach, Redwing, ROMP, GreyFox, and a slew of others. Abroad, they have appeared at Scotland’s Shetland Island Folk Fest and the Celtic Connections tour, Australia’s National Folk Festival, and others. The Boot, who featured Lindsay Lou Band as a “Can’t Miss Act at AmericanaFest 2018, says “…Lou brings introspection and masterful vocal work to her live show.”

In the words of famed bluegrass musician David Grier, who caught Lindsay Lou Band at a recent festival, “Lindsay…sings the way you would want to if’n you could. Phrasing, tone, emotion, it’s all there. Effortless seemingly. Simply mesmerizing. Riveting! Don’t miss the musical force that is Lindsay Lou.”

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