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Lindsay Lou

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Dana Kalachnik/Courtesy of the artist


Lindsay Lou

Dana Kalachnik/Courtesy of the artist

  • “On Your Aspect (Starman)”
  • “Queen of Time”
  • “This Too Shall Move”
  • “Love Calls”
  • “Nothing’s Working”

A psychedelic journey helped open the artistic door for Lindsay Lou to craft her newest album. Impressed by visions of what she calls the divine female, Queen of Time was Lou’s solution to faucet into that power.

“I’d simply been advised this story my entire life — that we have been created from items of God,” Lou tells World Cafe over a video name. “God created us with elements of himself, we have been created within the picture of God, and it was all actually delivered in masculine phrases. So to have this epic reclaiming of the narrative, and to be eager to embody regardless of the divine means, and to wish to embody a female model of that, it actually kind of blew me out of the water. It despatched me on a yearslong journey.”

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The Nashville singer-songwriter’s album options appearances from Jerry Douglas and Billy Strings. It additionally options voice recordings with Lou’s late grandmother, who she calls the “unattainable lady.”

“She had 12 youngsters and she or he mentioned she had a mom’s coronary heart, and plenty of moms will let you know this, that while you turn out to be a mom, you begin to take a look at all infants as your child,” she says. “In her phrases, she felt like she was a mom to all of God’s kids. And so she took it upon herself to absorb the homeless, and there was all the time somebody hanging about.”

Lou additionally talks about hanging out on her personal and dealing together with her former neighbor, Billy Strings.

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