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Alabama Music Office.com goes to the 30A Songwriters Festival 2014 in South Walton County, Florida. This was their 5th year and is one of the very best Songwriters Festivals that I have covered. Amy LaVere was at Central Square Records in Seaside to entertain along with members of her band that included Will Sexton.
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A fellow artist once said of her, "How can you not like a gal that drinks bourbon neat, walks around with a pocket atlas and drives a big white gear van?

That's a glimpse of Amy LaVere.

Always moving, always writing and always true to her quirky, spirited and sometimes melancholy point of view.

Living in Memphis since 1999, Amy released her debut album, "This World Is Not My Home" (Archer Records, 2005) to critical acclaim as music writers seemed mesmerized by her voice, lyrics, and the whole idea of a beautiful woman slapping an upright bass taller that she was. In the words of the legendary producer Jim Dickinson, who produced her break out record, "Anchors & Anvils" (Archer Records, 2007), "She has the whole package-the songs, the voice, the looks, and she can triple-slap the upright bass like Willie Dixon on steroids."

The success of "Anchors & Anvils" drew the attention of the UK market and soon Amy was invited to perform on the BBC's "Later with Jool's Holland" TV show which introduced her to an international audience. She also met her next producer at the show, Craig Silvey (Arcade Fire, Jamie Cullum). Since then the stages have gotten bigger- Bonnaroo Music Festival, Austin City Limit's Music Festival, and the Rolling Stone Weekender Festival in Germany.

Amy and Craig Silvey teamed up to produce "Stranger Me" (Archer Records, 2011) which was praised in the US by the likes of Spin Magazine, Paste Magazine, AP and NPR and earned four stars from The London Daily Mirror, The London Sunday Times and Q Magazine. iTunes featured "You Can't Keep Me", the album single, which resulted in over 100,000 downloads in the first week.
Continued at: http://amylavere.com/about