Lillie Mae
Lillie Mae | |
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| Birth name | Lillie Mae Rische |
| Genres | Americana, country, bluegrass |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, fiddle |
| Years active | 2013-present |
| Labels | Third Man Records |
| Website | www |
Lillie Mae (born Lillie Mae Rische on June 26, 1991) is an American country and Americana singer, songwriter, fiddle and guitar player based out of Nashville, Tennessee.[1]
Career
Early career
Lillie Mae Rische [2] started playing and performing live at the age of 3. She started playing guitar at age 4 and started playing fiddle at age 7. Lillie Mae and her family toured as a family band for many years. Her father, Forrest Carter, left when she was 11.[2] The family settled in Nashville, Tennessee january of the year 2000. Her family began playing the local honky tonks (Laylas) with her siblings, Frank, Scarlett, Amber-Dawn and McKenna Grace, as Jypsi.[2] Most of the siblings signed with Arista Records in 2007 and had two Top 40 singles on Hot Country Songs the next year "I Don't Love You Like That".[3]
Third Man Records and Jack White
Mae began doing session work for Third Man Records, which led to her playing fiddle on Jack White's 2012 and 2014 tours.[2]
In 2013, Lillie Mae appeared in several spots in the filmed concert Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis.[4] She sang and played violin on "Did You Hear John Hurt?" and "We're Going to Be Friends" alongside Jack White.[5]
Mae has appeared on all three of Jack White's solo records, as well as on The Raconteurs' 2019 album Help Us Stranger.
Solo career
In 2014, Mae released her first solo song titled "Nobody's".[6]
On January 19, 2015 she released "Rain On The Piano," produced by Johnny Sandlin.
On June 23, 2017, Lillie Mae released A full-length album titled Forever and Then Some on Third Man Records.[7][8] The album was produced by Jack White and featured contributions from her siblings, Frank and Scarlett and mckenna Grace.[9][10][2]
In 2017, she performed in the multi-award-winning documentary The American Epic Sessions. In this musical feature, she played both fiddle and mandolin alongside Jack White, Dominic Davis, and Fats Kaplin as part of the backing band for artists such as Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, Taj Mahal, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, and Ana Gabriel. Merle Haggard played her fiddle on the show.
She played fiddle and provided background vocals ( with brother Frank Carter ) On Time Flies, a 2018 album by Jim Lauderdale. And for Jim’s next album following time flies.
On August 16, 2019, Lillie Mae released her Follow up studio album, Other Girls[11] on Third Man Records. It was produced by the Dave Cobb and recorded at Nashville's Historic RCA Studio A.
Lillie Mae has performed as a solo artist on both Conan[12] and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.[13]
She is currently touring in Robert Plant's Sensational Space Shifters, and opening most shows (no festivals) acoustically with her partner Misael Arriaga Arriaga also plays in Lillie Mae's current touring band.
Mae also works with Misa on other multiple projects and records with him quite often.
Lillie Mae plays with her siblings still in the family band, for Fun and the love of music and plays downtown Nashville at Layla’s Wednesday Thursday Saturday and Sunday, whenever she is not out of town on the road.
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | ||
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| US Country Sales [14][15] |
US Heat [16][17] |
US Taste [18] | |||
| Rain On the Piano |
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— | — | — | |
| Forever and Then Some |
|
45 | 22 | — | |
| Other Girls |
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13 | 7 | 13 |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||
Singles
- "Nobody's" (2014, Third Man Records)
Music videos
- Wash Me Clean (2017)
- Over The Hill and Through The Woods (2017)
- You've Got Other Girls for That (2019)
References
- ^ Hight, Jewly. "World Cafe Nashville: Lillie Mae". NPR Music. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
- ^ a b c d e Randy Fox (2019-07-16). "No Other Girl". The East Nashvillian. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
- ^ Konc, Riane. "Who Is Lillie Mae? 5 Things You Need to Know". Theboot.com. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
- ^ "Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis". IMDb. Retrieved 11 Mar 2018.
- ^ "Jack White - Did You Hear John Hurt? / We're Going to Be Friends". YouTube. Retrieved 11 Mar 2018.
- ^ Lewis, Randy. "Premiere: Jack White band singer-fiddler Lillie Mae Rische's 'Nobody's'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
- ^ "25 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2017 So Far". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
- ^ Cooper, Leonie. "Lillie Mae – 'Forever and Then Some' Review". NME. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
- ^ Rettig, James. "Jack White Producing Debut Solo Album From His Touring Band's Fiddler Lillie Mae Rische". Stereogum. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
- ^ Shelter, Carter. "Meet Lillie Mae With Her Jack White-Produced New Single "Over The Hill and Through The Woods"". Paste. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
- ^ "Lillie Mae | Other Girls LP or CD". thirdmanstore.com. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
- ^ Gold, Adam. "Watch Lillie Mae's Scorching Solo Debut on 'Conan'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
- ^ Gage, Jeff. "See Lillie Mae's Hypnotic 'Over the Hill and Through the Woods' on 'Colbert'". Rolling Stone.
- ^ "Country Album Sales". Billboard. August 31, 2019.
- ^ "Country Album Sales". Billboard. May 6, 2017.
- ^ "Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. August 31, 2019.
- ^ "Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. May 6, 2017.
- ^ "Tastemaker Albums". Billboard. August 31, 2019.
- ^ Bjorke, Matt (September 4, 2019). "Top 10 Country Album Sales Chart: September 4, 2019". Roughstock. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
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