Lera Lynn on What She Learned From ‘True Detective’ Role
Lynn has again been working with The Avenues producer and pedal-steel player Joshua Grange on her next LP, which she expects to be released in early 2016. Though she isn’t taking inspiration directly from her experiences on True Detective, the series did provide some valuable takeaways. “It showed that people will respond to slower, darker music,” she says. “Not to say that the next record will stylistically reflect the music I have done [for the show] necessarily, but I think it allowed me to dabble in a darker direction without fear.”
With the True Detective Season 2 soundtrack due this month, Lynn also hopes that it won’t be the last one she appears on — though the wider audience a film or television project provides is certainly a boost, she loves the fact that a musical score is an integrally visceral component of the overall viewing experience.
“It’s half of it, I think,” she explains. “I don’t want to reduce in any way what goes into the visual aspects — that’s huge — but watching a movie without music would be pretty awful. Music has the ability to go straight to the heart and skip over the brain completely.”
Here are the dates for Lynn’s tour, with East Coast and Midwest legs to be announced soon:
September 17 – Nashville @ Mercy Lounge (Americana Music Festival)
September 19 & 20 – Bristol, TN @ Bristol Rhythm and Brews Fest
September 23 – Birmingham, AL @ WorkPlay
September 24 – Little Rock @ South on Main, Oxford American
September 25 – Dallas @ Kessler Theater
September 26 – Austin @ the Parish
September 29 – Phoenix @ Modern Instrument Museum
October 1 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s
October 2 – Los Angeles @ the Troubadour
October 6 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
October 7 – Seattle @ Triple Door
October 9 – Salt Lake City @ State Room
October 10 – Denver @ Daniels Hall
October 12 – Kansas City, MO @ Knuckleheads
October 13 – St. Louis @ Blueberry Hill
October 14 – Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall
October 16 – Knoxville, TN @ Square Room
October 17 – Nashville @ 3rd & Lindsey