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Artist | Lillie Mae
Title | Forever And Then Some
Genre | Country Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 41:58
Label | Third Man Records Store | 2017
Catalog | TMR-422 Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 245 kbps Size | 77.56 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Over The Hill And Through The Woods 3:17
02. Honky Tonks And Taverns 2:19
03. Wash Me Clean 3:18
04. Loaner 4:45
05. Honest And True 4:57
06. These Daze 4:50
07. Forever And Then Some 4:49
08. Nearing Home 3:38
09. To Go Wrong 4:09
10. Some Fine Day 3:13
11. Dance To The Beat Of My Own Drum 2:43
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Lillie Mae Rische is an American singer, songwriter, and
multi-instrumentalist, known to bluegrass and country fans as a member of
all-sibling outfits The Risches and Jypsi. Rock fans discovered her fiddle
and mandolin playing in Jack White's live band. They encountered her
instantly recognizable singing voice on "Temporary Ground" from his 2014
"Lazaretto" album, as well as her debut solo single "Nobody's" b/w "Same
Eyes", issued in Third Man Records' Blue Series the same year.
Yes, Mae was the fiddle player in Jack White's backing band The Peacocks.
Yes, it was she who sang "Temporary Ground" so beautifully on Lazaretto.
But Mae is no White discovery. Though in her mid-twenties, she has been a
professional musician since she was a child. As lead singer of Jypsi - a
country, bluegrass, and pop fusion act comprised entirely of Rische
siblings - she had a major-label record deal that netted an album and a Top
40 country radio single.
"Forever And Then Some" is Mae's solo debut. Produced by White, it's the
work of a mature talent who knows exactly what she wants. She writes and
sings direct, often tender, sometimes harrowing songs in a voice that
alternately recalls Connie Smith, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris, with
completely original phrasing. Mae plays guitar and fiddle, her sister
Scarlett plays mandolin (and co-wrote four of these eleven songs with Mae),
brother Frank Carter Rische plays lead guitars, and sister McKenna Grace
sings harmony.
Rische family friends Brian Zohn (bass) and Tanner Jacobson (drums) make up
the rhythm section, and there are a host of guests including members of the
Dead Weather, Old Crow Medicine Show, and the Howlin' Brothers. Opener
"Over The Hills and Through The Woods" weds outlaw country, bluegrass, and
swamp rock under Mae's high lonesome vocal in a narrative about brokenness.
"Honky Tonks And Taverns" weds Bakersfield and Texas dancehall country
music as her fiddle sweeps around her vocal, egged on by electric guitar,
pedal steel, and mandolin in a swirling two-step.
The melody of first single "Wash Me Clean" emerges from Appalachian
bluegrass filtered through blues and country. Mae's lyric grabs the
listener and doesn't let go. Her protagonist won't - or can't - repent;
she reveals that a ruined love has transformed her into something wholly
other than what she once was. This kind of forbidden and lost love provides
a theme for most of these songs. The punchy country rock in "Honest And
True" offers a heartbreaking account of the emotional consequences of
desire lived in the shadows.
The jaunty bluegrass in "To Go Wrong" is contrasted by the pessimistic
acceptance in its lyric: 'good things are meant to go wrong' (the fiddle
fills and mandolin breaks are killer to boot). Closer "Dance to the Beat of
My Own Drum," with its rumbling tom-toms, organ, and droning fiddle,
undergird a tribal personal manifesto that weaves through backwoods gospel
and swaggering, bluesy soul. It would have made a great opener, but it sums
up the album's themes: That this life, its series of choices and
circumstances no matter how happy or sad, right or wrong, cannot be
apologized for, it just is.
"Forever And Then Some" is as moving as it is auspicious. Mae is a
singer/songwriter whose embrace of roots musical traditions bodes well for
her as she articulates her own vision of Americana.
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