Video: Jessica Lea Mayfield sings...

photo by Crackerfarm Joining the Annuals and What Laura Says, Jessica Lea Mayfield will be arriving in town for what will be the first of the tour's 30+ dates, playing the Varsity Theater on Jan. 20. Through working with The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach—Auerbach having produced her With Blasphemy So Heartfelt album and Mayfield having appeared on the band's Attack and Release —Mayfield has become ingrained within Ohio's musical environment, but don't tell her that she's just another female singer/songwriter. Recently Culture Bully's Jon Behm caught up with Mayfield for a few questions, [...]

• Jessica Lea Mayfield - Hold You Close
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One of the first things you notice about Jessica Lea Mayfield, besides that powerful voice of an old, heavy soul who's lived through a ten lives of hard times, is how she can turn a song on its end with the twist of a single phrase. At the beginning of "We've Never Lied," as Mayfield slowly strums her guitar, and states, quite remorsefully, "Kiss me like you love me/I'll pretend we've never lied," there seems to be a small glimmer of hope that a broken releationship can be mended. However, as it progresses, she reveals who's really in control of [...]

Jessica Lea Mayfield is a singer-songwriter from Kent, Ohio. Her debut album, With Blasphemy So Heartfelt , was produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys and features her brother, Auerbach on various instruments, and Scott McMicken, guitarist from Dr. Dog. I can't remember the last time I was so transfixed by a singer; maybe Jim James or M. Ward or Iris Dement or Cat when she's at her most beautiful or Lucinda singing "Something About What Happens When We Talk". Perhaps you caught your first taste of Mayfield on the closing [...]

• Jessica Lea Mayfield - The One I Love Best