THROUGHOUT HER CAREER — A NEARLY DECADE-LONG RUN FILLED WITH THREE ALBUM RELEASES, A CAREER-SHIFTING APPEARANCE AND SOUNDTRACK FOR HBO’S TRUE DETECTIVE, HUNDREDS OF SHOWS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC, AND A SOUND ENCOMPASSING EVERYTHING FROM AMERICANA TO STARK INDIE ROCK — LERA LYNN HAS BALANCED HER FIERCE INDEPENDENCE WITH A STRING OF COLLABORATIONS. SHE IS CURRENTLY BASED OUT OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.
SHE'S WRITTEN SONGS WITH T BONE BURNETT AND ROSANNE CASH. SHE'S RECORDED ALBUMS WITH FULL BANDS (2014'S THE AVENUES, HAILED BY OUTLETS LIKE ROLLING STONE AND AMERICAN SONGWRITER) AND SMALLER LINEUPS (THE EXPERIMENTAL, NPR AND NEW YORK TIMES-APPROVED RESISTOR, WHICH LYNN CO-PRODUCED AT HER NASHVILLE HOME). ON HER FOURTH ALBUM, PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS, SHE TEAMS UP WITH EIGHT DIFFERENT DUET PARTNERS AND SEVEN CO-WRITERS, RESULTING IN HER MOST DIVERSE, COLLABORATIVE WORK TO DATE.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS IS A UNIQUE DUETS ALBUM — ONE IN WHICH NEARLY EVERY SONG IS COMPLETELY CO-WRITTEN AND CO-SUNG. PETER BRADLEY ADAMS, JOHN PAUL WHITE, DYLAN LEBLANC, ANDREW COMBS, RODNEY CROWELL, SHOVELS & ROPE, JD MCPHERSON, AND NICOLE ATKINS ALL MAKE APPEARANCES, WORKING ALONGSIDE LYNN NOT ONLY TO PERFORM THESE SONGS, BUT TO CREATE THEM, TOO.
DARK HORSE IS THE DYNAMIC, UPLIFTING AND BRAND-NEW SINGLE FROM LERA LYNN.
RECORDED DURING THE DEAD OF WINTER WITH CO-PRODUCER JOSHUA GRANGE, THE 10-TRACK ALBUM IS AT ONCE SPACEY AND SPECIFIC, WITH LYNN AND GRANGE PLAYING EVERY INSTRUMENT THEMSELVES. BARITONE GUITARS, KEYBOARDS AND LOOPED DRUMS FILL THE BACKGROUND, WHILE LYNN’S VOICE WAFTS INTO THE SPOTLIGHT, SINGING SONGS THAT OCCUPY THE OUTER LIMITS OF AMERICANA AND INDIE ROCK.
