Lauren Lucas
Nashville, Tennessee, United States | Established. Jan 01, 1999
Music
Press
"She's generating praise for a voice that's bright, expressive, and immediately recognizable, as well as a genuine earthiness that can't be manufactured or taught." -- Nashville City Paper - Nashville City Paper
"Lauren Lucas's self-released debut EP is bursting with songs that could be hits with some marketing muscle, but "Riverstone" isn't one of them. That's because it's a worthy addition to the great country tradition of murder ballads, which the genre has rejected in favor of fetishizing blameless death (preferably that of a child, ideally from cancer). But the lyrical image of a naked woman with a Bible in one hand and a whiskey bottle in the other? As a wise man (well, David Allan Coe, anyway) once sang, 'If that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass.'" --Chris Neal, pop.idolator.com, In the Mix - Pop Idolator.com
"Because of her poppy spunk and girl-you-know delivery, the Columbia native will remind you of Dolly Parton sipping tea with Wynonna in a blues joint." -- Otis Taylor, The State - The State
Lauren Lucas EP Review - If I Was Your Girl
Lauren Lucas' new EP If I Was Your Girl opens with one of the more whiplash-inducing one-two punches country fans have heard in a long time. The propulsive, "Riverstone" is an artfully elliptical Southern-gothic murder parable. But there's barely time to absorb the elements of revenge, religion and suicidal guilt in that tune before you're thrown headfirst into "Borderline Divine," a sweetly sunny over-the-moon ode to one man's wonderfulness. That Lucas can believably deliver such disparate roles on record -- much less write them in the first place -- owes something to her background in musical theater, and even more to her naturally supple voice and the grounding in country and soul she received growing up in South Carolina. If I Was Your Girl's five other tantalizing cuts are just as impressive. -- CHRIS NEAL - The Nashville Scene
Discography
What You Ain't Gonna Get (single, Warner Bros. 2005)
The Carolina Kind (single, Warner Bros. 2005)
If I Was Your Girl (2007 self-released EP)
On With the Show (2011 self-released EP)
House of the Rising Sun (single, 2017 - as member of the band, Farewell Angelina)
Upcoming release -- August 16, 2019
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Bio
For over two decades, Lauren Lucas has been performing and writing her way into fan's and critic's hearts alike. The South Carolina native landed her first Nashville music contract at the age of fifteen when highly revered publisher, Donna Hilley, signed her to a publishing and production deal at (what was then) Sony/ATV Tree.
That was the launch pad for a major label recording contract with Warner Bros. Records, a nationwide radio tour, a Tony nomination as a composer, an ACM nomination as an artist, two independent releases, song placements in TV and film, and a world-wide tour as a member of an all-female harmony band called, Farewell Angelina.
In addition to writing for film and tv projects, Lauren is gearing up to support The Bacon Brothers on tour dates several dates, as well as playing listening rooms, songwriter festivals and corporate events all over the country through fall 2019. Keep your ears open for her upcoming release on August 16!
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