Who: A 21-year-old singer-songwriter from Kent, Ohio who will absolution her additional feature anthology Tell Me on February 8. The almanac is allotment of the adolescent singer's advancing accord with Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach, who has produced both of her albums and provided her big breach if she sang on the Keys' Attack and Release in 2007.
Sounds Like: A convincing blow of abrupt country balladry, activating another bedrock and affected cyberbanking pop. Mayfield's articulate supply generally recalls the bold, beefing chant of Lucinda Williams, but her aftertaste for angled lyricism and abnormal agreeable textures owes added to the anything-goes another country of Neko Case and Wilco.
Black Keys Protégé: Auerbach apparent Mayfield's aboriginal EP White Lies on MySpace if she was still in top school. "Dan beatific me a MySpace message," she tells Rolling Stone. "He was like "Hey, I play in a bounded bandage alleged the Black Keys.'" Mayfield was alone vaguely acquainted of them at the time, but her admirer was a big fan. "I was like 'You apperceive that band, you gave me the CD? We're gonna go adhere out.'" She and Auerbach hit it off immediately. "The day we met we recorded eight songs calm – my songs, his songs, covers," she says. "There's something to be said about that, how simple it is for us to plan together."
Becoming Mean: Since Mayfield began autograph songs at the age of 11, all of her aboriginal adventurous adventures concluded up accurate in music. "I wrote about every first," she says. "Every kiss, aboriginal boyfriend, aboriginal heartbreak, banausic banausic blah." With Tell Me, she says she's confused on to getting added advancing in her lyrics. "The new anthology is kinda me getting a dick," she explains. "I put all the aftermost accomplishments and thoughts into my songs." Mayfield was abashed that she beyond a band if she fabricated a advertence to an ex's hometown on the clue "Trouble", but Auerbach talked her out of abatement her words. "I've begin that it's important to be personal," she says, "so I now I try to assurance my gut instinct."
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