Fri 3/2 @ 8PM
Kent’s Jessica Lea Mayfield has been through a series of moods, musical styles and looks in her long career. That’s not surprising for an artist who has yet to reach who is still just 28, and began playing at age 8 in her parent’s bluegrass band. She released her first official album when she was barely 19, produced by Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach.
Last fall she released Sorry Is Gone, her fourth album. While Mayfield’s earlier music contained more evidence of her early rustic roots, she’s more and more drawn from various corners of indie/alternative music. Her producer on this album is John Agnello, who has worked with Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. There’s often a bleak, almost stunned quality to her vocals, which fits her subject matter like a glove: she’s said that most of the material on the album refers to the domestic violence she endured at the hands of her husband and former bandmate, bassist Jesse Newport.
The album press release says, “Sorry Is Gone is a raw document of a woman in progress; one weathering cruel storms but finally able to blame the rain itself for the flood. Written as the truth of her own poisonous marriage unfolded before her eyes, Sorry Is Gone is a record of permission. Permission to create freely, to escape what is no longer safe and to stop bearing responsibility for things done to her, not by her.”
Mayfield will perform at Mahall’s 20 Lanes with Mal Blum and the Punch Drunk Tagalongs opening. Tickets are $15.
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