It’s hard to imagine droves of people showing up for an all-locals show, even amidst Richmond’s current musical renaissance. But First Friday at the National was anything but a typical night as Lucy Dacus performed her largest homecoming show to date at The National alongside My Darling Fury and Spooky Cool.
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Lucy Dacus performs on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert
The beloved RVA singer/songwriter Lucy Dacus who quickly rose to fame with that sweet, soft angelic voice of hers just keeps popping up on every news outlet, festival, and magazine you can imagine.
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Lucy Dacus announces show at the National in October
Hometown songstress and hero Lucy Dacus is in the middle of a massive nationwide tour, but it appears she’s set to make a triumphant return home when she’ll take the stage at the National in October.
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Time Magazine calls Lucy Dacus’ ‘No Burden’ one of the best albums of 2016
RVA’s brightest young star continues to make headlines this year. After getting scooped up by Matador, one of the biggest indie labels in the country, she’s now making “best of” lists along side Beyonce and David Bowie.
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RVA’s indie sensation Lucy Dacus signs with Matador Records
For Richmond singer/songwriter Lucy Dacus, the past few months have likely flown by, as success has emerged quickly and excessively from the release of her debut album, No Burden, which dropped in February. She’s been reviewed by big music publications, been booked for big name festivals like SXSW and the famed Lollapalooza, and is even going overseas to play the End of the Road Festival in England. But even with all that, she’s reached another milestone of success: she has just signed with Matador Records.
According to her Facebook page, they’ll be repressing the indie darling’s No Burden for release in the fall with a CD/LP out Sept 9.
In an interview with FADER, she elaborated on the success and the excitement that comes from it – success that might not have happened if she had decided to stay in film school.
“We’re gonna play a bunch of really cool cities that we’ve never been to, and festivals,” Dacus told Fader. “As someone who’s been to Lollapalooza, I was like, ‘Man, everyone who plays this has to feel awesome.’ I was still in film school at the time and not thinking about music, so I couldn’t even imagine that happening.”
Just a few years ago, Dacus was still enrolled in film school, “being told that music should be a hobby.” Her mother, a music teacher, suggested Dacus get a stable, well-paying job, as opposed to a music career that could be hit or miss. But Dacus decided to record her debut album, a hasty endeavor that turned out to be fruitful despite being thrown together in a short amount of time. The album itself was recorded before the band had played any of the songs live, and they were basically put together just days before the album was made.
Her signing to Matador Records, the longtime New York-based indie record label famed for signing such acts as Queens of the Stone Age, Liz Phair, Mogwai and Modest Mouse, comes just in time it seems, since Dacus told FADER that her debut album had grown so popular they’ve run out of vinyl.
The band, which is getting a few weeks to rest after two months of touring, is slated to hit the road again in July to continue their nationwide tour, this time embarking on the road for four months starting in Michigan, then hitting, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Washington, California, Arizona, Texas, Massachusetts, and Georgia.
Check out tour dates here and read the full FADER interview with Lucy Dacus here.
You can also read up on her song writing process and her No Burden album in our interview with her for RVA Mag’s 23rd issue here.
Drawing (and dancing) in the dark: Jennifer Kennedy on documenting the RVA live music scene
Jennifer Kennedy wants to be bored.