Thu 2/27 @ 8:30PM
Columbus-based songwriter/singer/guitarist Lydia Loveless is a hard-rocking little package whose rural raised-in-Coshocton roots show through.
Like Jessica Lea Mayfield, who has a similar aura — precocious, earthy, tough yet heartbroken — she comes from a musical family. (All three of her siblings are in Columbus-area bands.) That likely accounts for her early start: her debut album, recorded when she was a teenager, was released in 2010 when she was just 20. Her wailing vocals have a maturity that belies her young age.
Her new album, the just-released Somewhere Else, like 2011’s Indestructible Machine and last year’s Boy Crazy EP, is on Chicago’s Bloodshot Records, one of the elite roots rock/alt-country labels and a powerful stamp of approval for an artist working in the genre.
She’s on her way back to the Beachland Tavern with Hazard Adams opening.
Admission is $8.