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"I make a lot of stuff up," she says breaking up with laughter. Petite with fiery red hair Regan appears happy enough sitting Indian-style in the fresh cut grass under Nashville's beaming summer sun. But there is more behind the gregarious grin, experiences beneath the infectious giggle. And after listening to her latest creation, Lone Lily you realize Regan's effervescent but relaxed demeanor belies a more complex being, the earthy spirit of someone who has dug her heels into the dirt of life and stepped out more experienced, more knowledgeable and well, dirtier. Growing up in the heart of a small mid-western farm town Regan discovered her own musical strains humming in her head as a child. It didn't take long before the ebullient Hoosier girl began channeling her musical passions in to weekly lessons, studying piano and violin throughout her school years. But it wasn't until she was sixteen that she began to fall for the guitar. "Several of my friends already played so we just started teaching each other," remembers the twenty-three year old singer/songwriter. It is not surprising the country girl's fingers eventually traded tickling the ivories for the elastic bend of an acoustic. "I was a farm girl so I listened to a lot of Country music," Regan reminisces. Citing Patty Griffin, Ryan Adams and Gillian Welch as current influences Lone Lily showcases these rootsy inclinations, packing one original after another with picking banjos, strumming guitars, chucking mandolins and licking harmonicas. Even with all of the arrangements and metaphors and studio time and schedules Regan still insists her "main influence is probably life and silence. I'm stubborn when it comes to people asking me to compromise how I've been created or change the things that I have created" Regan concludes. "I've always seemed to go against the grain. And I think I'm doing alright at it."