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Artist
Lydia Loveless
12+ albums
Alt-countrycountryamericanafolkfemale vocalist
about
After first making a name as a firebrand alt-country artist, Lydia Loveless has matured into an indie singer/songwriter whose music makes room for contemporary pop influences and roots music without betraying their fearless, personal lyrical stance. Loveless’ vocals combine the honky tonk style of classic country stars like Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline with the no-quarter attitude of punk rock icons such as Exene Cervenka and Carla Bozulich, and their idiosyncratic covers of songs by Kesha and Justin Beiber demonstrated how much passion and individuality they bring to their performances. While their music never fully lost the twang displayed on 2011's Indestructible Machine and the 2017 collection Boy Crazy and Single(s), their adventurous pop sensibility is well represented on 2020's Daughter and 2023's Nothing's Gonna Stand in My Way Again. In 2024, they celebrated the tenth anniversary of their album Somewhere Else with Something Else, where they reinterpreted the songs in solo acoustic form. Loveless was born in Coshocton, Ohio in 1990; they were raised on a farm, but their father was also a music fan who booked bands at a local bar, and Lydia became accustomed early on to seeing bands play and discovering an out-of-town act asleep on the living-room floor in the morning. By the time Loveless was 13, they had taken up songwriting and were doing shows with local bands, playing a combination of rootsy country and punk-influenced rock & roll. After relocating to Columbus, O
