Jessica Lea Mayfield

A folk-influenced songwriter from Kent, Ohio, Jessica Lea Mayfield began performing with her family’s bluegrass music group, A PROVEN WAY Rider, at age eight. She began writing her personal music 3 years later on, often associated her older sibling at open-mike shows in the Ohio region before getting a weekly single gig at an area pub. At 15 years of age, Mayfield got to her brother’s bedroom to record a batch of her personal acoustic tracks, which went the gamut from uncooked, aggressive folk music to world-weary nation ballads. The recordings comprised the monitor list of White colored Lies, her self-employed debut, which she released beneath the name Chittlin’. Just 100 copies of White colored Lies were imprinted, among which finished up in the hands of Dan Auerbach, frontman from the Ohio-based blues clothing the Dark Secrets. With Auerbach’s help, Mayfield started appealing to a wider viewers. She produced a visitor appearance within the Dark Secrets’ 2008 recording Attack & Launch, singing back-up vocals over the monitor “Stuff Ain’t Like They Utilized to Become,” and spent a set of years documenting her standard debut recording, With Blasphemy Therefore Heartfelt, in Auerbach’s house studio room. Released in Sept 2008 by Polymer Seems, the recording was a crucial success. Mayfield backed its launch by happening tour, offering as an starting act for rings just like the Avett Brothers, Wedding cake, Lucero, as well as the Dark Secrets. Mayfield’s touring commitments extended into 2009, when she opened up 11 concerts for Ray Lamontagne and performed in the annual Bonnaroo Event that summer. Carrying on her association with Dan Auerbach, she also made an appearance for the frontman’s 1st solo record, Maintain It Hid, and enlisted his assist in documenting her second recording. Inform Me, which doubled as her 1st release for non-esuch Records, premiered in early 2011. Mayfield’s follow-up, Make My Mind Sing, was a full musical switch. Documented at Nashville’s Golf club Roar Studio room with drummer/engineer Matt Martin and co-produced by spouse Jesse Newport, the recording was a scorching, electrical rock & move set. It had been released by ATO in Apr of 2014. She after that came back to her even more acoustic origins to record an properly solemn cover recording of Elliott Smith tracks with Seth Avett from the Avett Brothers entitled Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield Sing Elliott Smith. The recording premiered in early 2015 and was along with a tour which the duo performed tracks by Smith and distributed influences like the Beatles and Bob Dylan, aswell as their personal material.