Lillie Mae

Lillie Mae
Birth nameLillie Mae Rische
BornGalena, Illinois, U.S.
GenresAmericana, country, bluegrass
Instrument(s)Guitar, fiddle
Years active2013-present
LabelsThird Man Records
Formerly ofJypsi
Websitewww.lilliemaemusic.com

Lillie Mae (born Lillie Mae Rische on June 26, 1991) is an American country and Americana singer, songwriter, fiddle and guitar player based in 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 in 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 (Blunderbuss) and 2014 (Lazaretto) tours. [2] She was part of the female band that toured alongside the male band.

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] In 2015 she released Rain On The Piano.

On June 23, 2017, Lillie Mae released 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 on Jim Lauderdale's 2018 album Time Flies.

On August 16, 2019, Lillie Mae released her follow up studio album, Other Girls on Third Man Records.[11] It was produced by the Dave Cobb and recorded at Nashville's RCA Studio A.

Lillie Mae has performed as a solo artist on both Conan and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.[12][13]

She toured with Robert Plant's Sensational Space Shifters, opening most shows acoustically with her partner Misael Arriaga. Arriaga also plays in Lillie Mae's touring band.

Lillie Mae plays with her siblings still in the family band, (The Risches) and plays downtown Nashville at Layla's whenever she is not touring.

Discography

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
US
Country Sales
[14][15] 		US
Heat
[16][17] 		US
Taste
[18]
Rain On the Piano
  • Release date: 2015
  • Label: Southern Shift Records
 — — —
Forever and Then Some
  • Release date: April 14, 2017
  • Label: Third Man Records
 45 22 —
Other Girls
  • Release date: August 16, 2019
  • Label: Third Man Records
 13 7 13
"—" 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

  1. ^ Hight, Jewly. "World Cafe Nashville: Lillie Mae". NPR Music. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e Randy Fox (2019-07-16). "No Other Girl". The East Nashvillian. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  3. ^ Konc, Riane (21 March 2018). "Who Is Lillie Mae? 5 Things You Need to Know". Theboot.com. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  4. ^ "Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis". IMDb. Retrieved 11 Mar 2018.
  5. ^ "Jack White - Did You Hear John Hurt? / We're Going to Be Friends". YouTube. 30 June 2014. Retrieved 11 Mar 2018.
  6. ^ Lewis, Randy (17 December 2014). "Premiere: Jack White band singer-fiddler Lillie Mae Rische's 'Nobody's'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  7. ^ "25 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2017 So Far". Rolling Stone. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  8. ^ Cooper, Leonie (21 June 2017). "Lillie Mae – 'Forever and Then Some' Review". NME. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  9. ^ Rettig, James (14 October 2016). "Jack White Producing Debut Solo Album From His Touring Band's Fiddler Lillie Mae Rische". Stereogum. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  10. ^ Shelter, Carter. "Meet Lillie Mae With Her Jack White-Produced New Single "Over The Hill and Through The Woods"". Paste. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  11. ^ "Lillie Mae | Other Girls LP or CD". thirdmanstore.com. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  12. ^ Gold, Adam (14 April 2017). "Watch Lillie Mae's Scorching Solo Debut on 'Conan'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  13. ^ Gage, Jeff (28 June 2017). "See Lillie Mae's Hypnotic 'Over the Hill and Through the Woods' on 'Colbert'". Rolling Stone.
  14. ^ "Country Album Sales". Billboard. August 31, 2019.
  15. ^ "Country Album Sales". Billboard. May 6, 2017.
  16. ^ "Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. August 31, 2019.
  17. ^ "Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. May 6, 2017.
  18. ^ "Tastemaker Albums". Billboard. August 31, 2019.
  19. ^ Bjorke, Matt (September 4, 2019). "Top 10 Country Album Sales Chart: September 4, 2019". Roughstock. Retrieved September 14, 2019.