LERA LYNN

PRODUCER, ARTIST, SONGWRITER

Lera Lynn is a Nashville based artist, songwriter and producer who got her start in Athens, GA. She first came to national attention through her writing and performances in the HBO series True Detective. Throughout her career, nearly a decade-long run filled with four album releases and hundreds of shows on both sides of the Atlantic, Lera Lynn has balanced her fierce independence with a string of collaborations. Her latest release, Plays Well With Others, on Single Lock Records features duets with John Paul White, Shovels and Rope, and Dylan LeBlanc. New music is slated for a 2020 release.

Biography

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 self-produced solo studio album On My On was release in October 2020.