After the release of her 2011 album Tell Me, Jessica Lea Mayfield was ready to quit music altogether. Thankfully, one wedding and one baritone guitar later, Mayfield got back in the ring to record “Make My Head Sing”, which saw the singer-songwriter take one foot out of the country arena she previously dabbled in and step into the gritty world of grunge. Though some of Mayfield’s signature lyrical complexity was sacrificed to make room for distorted, overdriven guitar solos, the album never feels like it’s missing anything. Make My Head Sing is still equally as honest as Mayfield’s past releases. One of the album’s strongest cuts, “Party Drugs,” explores Mayfield’s days of doing drugs with a loved one: “Party drugs/ I got used to/ Without them I’m bored and tired/ You and me and all this nothing/ It’s sweet, you’ve seen if I’m still breathing
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Jessica Lea Mayfield’s earlier albums were far more sedate affairs, which is odd considering that they were produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, Nashville’s reigning king of garage-rock fuzz. Without Auerbach, Mayfield and her husband Jesse Newport went it alone, playing almost all the instruments and turning out a record that sounds a little bit country and more than a little bit like Nirvana and Mudhoney. We just admire her for having the gumption to challenge the audience she had already established. We also admire her for the fact that “Make My Head Sing …” shows her songwriting talent is too big to be locked inside of an individual genre or style.
Jessica Lea Mayfield: Make My Head Sing
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