Lera Lynn’s big break arrived when she was cast as a moody lone troubadour in the second season of HBO’s dark crime?drama True Detective. Her desolate?Lynchian?scenes suggested a spare, skeletal singer/songwriter, but?Lynn’s music is richer than?that: she draws equally from classic country and literary Americana, creating an ethereal spell from roots music.
A native of Houston,?Texas,?Lynn?played music as a teenager but decided to major in anthropology when she attended the University of Georgia.?Eventually, she was drawn to music, releasing an independent debut called?Have You Met Lera Lynn??The record received?some acclaim – its song “Bobby, Baby” won the Chris Austin Songwriting Competition at the 2011 Merlefest and the record helped her?win “Best Country Artist” at her local Flagpole Music Awards in Athens. Three years later, she released the EP?Lying in the Sun, followed?by the dreamy full-length?The Avenues, which received excellent reviews. This caught the attention of?T-Bone Burnett, who was?producing the soundtrack for True Detective‘s second season.?Burnett?hired?Lynn?to collaborate with him and?Rosanne Cash?on?songs for the series, a break that helped raise her profile. She capitalized on that attention in 2016 with?Resistor, an album that bore a?more overt rock influence than its predecessors. In 2018 Lynn released the duets album?Plays Well With Others?on Single Lock?Records featuring John Paul White, Rodney Crowell, and Shovels and Rope among others. She has toured extensively in the North America and Europe and has?multiple film/TV placements for her various recordings. Her new self-produced solo studio album?On My On?is?slated for an October 2020 release.
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