Amy LaVere

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Amy LaVere is an American singer, songwriter, upright bass player and actress. Based in Memphis, TN, LaVere’s music is usually classified as Americana, combining a blend of classic country, gypsy jazz, and southern soul. She has released three albums on Memphis label Archer Records, and has multiple acting credits in major motion pictures.

According to her Facebook page, LaVere “routinely gets antsy” [impatient, or restless] after she’s been off the road awhile. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana and a native of Bethany, Texas, she’s really more a child of America - a self-described “General Motors brat” whose father’s jobs kept her small family frequently on the move. Her life as a touring musician seems tailor-made for a woman who is seemingly one part upright bassist and another part gypsy.

More recently LaVere says she’s been surprised at how much she’s enjoyed “nesting” in the Midtown Memphis home she shares with Paul Taylor, her boyfriend and collaborator. Typical afternoons have found her in between bursts of household chores, sips of warm tea, back-scratches for her lab mix, Charlie, and living-room band practice with Paul and guitarist Steve Selvidge. In the early evening, with the temperature hovering in the teens outside, there’s dinner as classical music plays underneath.
Welcome to the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, right? But like the music on Amy’s stereo, this relative calm is merely a rest between movements.
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  • Stranger Me
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  • Anchors & Anvils
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  • This World Is Not My Home
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  • Died of Love
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  • divinemissh

    I just saw her on a Jools Holland repeat too. Way better than f***ing coldplay. Lovely please make more music!

    March 2012
  • MemorialAddress

    Saw her at the Rams Head on December 4th in Annapolis, great show! <3

    December 2011
  • fastlane01

    And she was very good live at the Crossing Border festival last week. Even Seasick Steve thought so too.

    November 2011
  • Kamikaze_Heart

    Stranger Me is quite possibly one of the best records of the year.

    August 2011
  • pechorkinname

    Stranger me is great. She is very underrated.

    August 2011
  • aaposiippainen

    my biggest favourite right now!

    August 2011
  • fastlane01

    new album sounds very good

    July 2011
  • Rexmous

    so great awesome voice

    August 2010
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