“Over the last 10 years I’ve been told by countless
people, emotional and earnest, that their favorite
record of mine is Something Else. I love that, and I nod
in amused reverence to it here.
The me of 2012-2013 was drowning in pain and insecurity
and my own press, pissed off that nobody could see me
for who I really was, what I had really been through,
and how hard it was to be me. I was walled in by fears
and worries that I would never be good enough. I was
struggling with my voice after a debilitating virus and a
six week tour. I had rented a little room in the Grandview
neighborhood of Columbus and was plugging away on
my splintered acoustic guitar with a tape recorder. I
was frustrated as could be, not coming up with anything
that I felt was “me” or even remotely song like. One day,
when I finally thought I had a nugget of something, I
read the lyrics aloud to my then husband and he looked
at me confused and said, “what are you even trying
to say in this, though? Who is the narrator?” I don’t
remember what I said to that but I’m sure it wasn’t kind.
When I went back into the studio with my friend Caeleigh
Featherstone recording me this go round, she looked
at me at one point and said, “Were you singing these
songs in front of old dudes? Like, your husband?” Yes, I
was, I told her. We both shook our heads and laughed at
the hubris on 22-year-old Lydia Loveless.”
Track Listing:
SIDE A
1. Really Wanna See You
2. Wine Lips feat. John Calvin Abney
3. Chris Isaak
4. To Love Somebody
5. Hurts So Bad
SIDE B
6. Head
7. Verlaine Shot Rimbaud feat. Katie Harriman
8. Somewhere Else feat. Jason Isbell
9. Everything’s Gone
10. They Don't Know
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“Over the last 10 years I’ve been told by countless
people, emotional and earnest, that their favorite
record of mine is Something Else. I love that, and I nod
in amused reverence to it here.
The me of 2012-2013 was drowning in pain and insecurity
and my own press, pissed off that nobody could see me
for who I really was, what I had really been through,
and how hard it was to be me. I was walled in by fears
and worries that I would never be good enough. I was
struggling with my voice after a debilitating virus and a
six week tour. I had rented a little room in the Grandview
neighborhood of Columbus and was plugging away on
my splintered acoustic guitar with a tape recorder. I
was frustrated as could be, not coming up with anything
that I felt was “me” or even remotely song like. One day,
when I finally thought I had a nugget of something, I
read the lyrics aloud to my then husband and he looked
at me confused and said, “what are you even trying
to say in this, though? Who is the narrator?” I don’t
remember what I said to that but I’m sure it wasn’t kind.
When I went back into the studio with my friend Caeleigh
Featherstone recording me this go round, she looked
at me at one point and said, “Were you singing these
songs in front of old dudes? Like, your husband?” Yes, I
was, I told her. We both shook our heads and laughed at
the hubris on 22-year-old Lydia Loveless.”
Track Listing:
SIDE A
1. Really Wanna See You
2. Wine Lips feat. John Calvin Abney
3. Chris Isaak
4. To Love Somebody
5. Hurts So Bad
SIDE B
6. Head
7. Verlaine Shot Rimbaud feat. Katie Harriman
8. Somewhere Else feat. Jason Isbell
9. Everything’s Gone
10. They Don't Know
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