Jessica Lea Mayfield
April 27
730 PM
Advance Tickets:
$20.00
Ticket price at the door: $22.00
Preferred seating for dinner guests.
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“ I’ m actually really shy,” insists Jessica Lea Mayfield. “ Not musically, but personally.”
This uncommonly mature 22-year-old singer-songwriter’ s Nonesuch debut balances the warm-hearted with the cold-blooded. Tell Me is a stunningly forthright 11-song set that addresses late-night longing, serial heartbreak, and intoxicatingly dangerous liaisons conducted in dimly lit barrooms or roadside motels.
By the end, the only heart intact is Mayfield’ s own. It’ s as if she’ d stripped the sentimentality and ruefulness from a bunch of classic country songs, leaving only stark emotion. The Black Keys’ singer and guitarist Dan Auerbach, who produced and engineered Tell Me at his Easy Eye Sound System studio in Akron, Ohio, matches Mayfield’ s candor with eerily minimal, brilliantly constructed tracks that keep her mesmerizing, unadorned voice front and center.
Spin’s “20 Best Country & Americana Albums of 2011?
posted on December 28, 2011
“Tell Me” in American Songwriter’s Top 50 Albums of 2011
Posted on: November 30, 2011
American Songwriter placed Jessica’s album “Tell Me” 17th on their Top 50 Albums of 2011 list!
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