Lucy Dacus beats Bob Dylan, Danny Brown in Rolling Stone’s ‘Best Songs of 2016’

by | Nov 30, 2016 | MUSIC

Richmond’s own Lucy Dacus has had a whirlwind year and it looks like it’s not quite over for the powerful vocalist.

Richmond’s own Lucy Dacus has had a whirlwind year and it looks like it’s not quite over for the powerful vocalist.

Oh man, we’ve been on the Dacus trail for just under a year now and it’s always exciting to see her hitting new heights.

Dacus, just shy of her 20th Birthday, dropped No Burden with local label Egghunt Records back in February to national acclaim including Time Magazine’s top albums of 2016 mid year.

The lead single, “I Don’t Wanna be Funny Anymore,” helped propel Dacus in front of indie-leaders Matador Records; they signed her and put her on a nation-wide tour including stops at Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits.

The catchy track invokes Dacus’s most incredible talent – her soft growl:

Sure enough, the track stood out enough to reach number 17 on Rolling Stone’s top tracks of 2016 list.

She beat our releases from rapper Danny Borwn, “Really Doe” off of Atrocity Exhibition , and Bob Dylan’s “That Old Black Magic” off of Fallen Angels, the Nobel Prize winning poet’s 37th studio album.

The video for “I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore,” with over 100,000 youtube views, was shot here in RVA with the help from some incredible local talent.

Dacus made a triumphant return to RVA with a packed house at the National in October.

“I wonder if there’s people in here thinking, ‘oh, what happened to that little solo artist in that coffee shop?’” she joked with the nearly sold-out crowd.

Leesburg-native Car Seat Headrest made it to #45 with “Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales.” The fellow Matador member also made the publications top records of 2016 coming in at #6.

Brad Kutner

Brad Kutner

Brad Kutner is the former editor of GayRVA and RVAMag from 2013 - 2017. He’s now the Richmond Bureau Chief for Radio IQ, a state-wide NPR outlet based in Roanoke. You can reach him at BradKutnerNPR@gmail.com




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