Amy LaVere

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Killing Him 00:00 Tools
You Can't Keep Me 00:00 Tools
Damn Love Song 00:00 Tools
Stranger Me 00:00 Tools
Tennessee Valentine 00:00 Tools
Red Banks 00:00 Tools
How? 00:00 Tools
Washing Machine 00:00 Tools
That Beat 00:00 Tools
Often Happens 00:00 Tools
A Great Divide 00:00 Tools
Lucky Boy 00:00 Tools
Time Is a Train 00:00 Tools
Day Like Any 00:00 Tools
Tricky Heart 00:00 Tools
Pointless Drinking 00:00 Tools
Rabbit 00:00 Tools
Take 'em Or Leave 'em 00:00 Tools
Cupid's Arrow 00:00 Tools
Candle Mambo 00:00 Tools
Overcome 00:00 Tools
Cry My Eyes Out 00:00 Tools
I'll Remember You 00:00 Tools
People Get Mad 00:00 Tools
Let Yourself Go (Come on) 00:00 Tools
Last Rock N' Roll Boy To Dance 00:00 Tools
Dark Moon 00:00 Tools
Big Sister 00:00 Tools
Where I Lead Me 00:00 Tools
Don't Go Yet John 00:00 Tools
Self Made Orphan 00:00 Tools
Never Been Sadder 00:00 Tools
Snowflake 00:00 Tools
Nightingale 00:00 Tools
That Beat (Keeps Disturbing My Sleep) 00:00 Tools
Lousy Pretender 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Home Soon 00:00 Tools
Reprise 00:00 Tools
Leaving 00:00 Tools
Innocent Girl 00:00 Tools
Last Night 00:00 Tools
This World Is Not My Home 00:00 Tools
Set It Down 00:00 Tools
We Went Sailing 00:00 Tools
Green Grass 00:00 Tools
Railroad Boy (Died of Love) 00:00 Tools
If Love Was A Train 00:00 Tools
Washing Machine (Reloaded) 00:00 Tools
Lazarus 00:00 Tools
Cricket (At Night I Can Fly) 00:00 Tools
Last Rock N Roll Boy To Dance 00:00 Tools
Dreamer 00:00 Tools
Brand New Key 00:00 Tools
It's the Thing to Do 00:00 Tools
Tonight Will Be Fine 00:00 Tools
"You Can't Keep Me" from the album Stranger Me (Archer Recor 00:00 Tools
Lesson 00:00 Tools
This Bridge 00:00 Tools
No Battle Hymn 00:00 Tools
How 00:00 Tools
you can't keep it 00:00 Tools
Baby Won't You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
I Don't Wanna Know 00:00 Tools
Girlfriends 00:00 Tools
Love I've Missed 00:00 Tools
No Room for Baby 00:00 Tools
Stick Horse 00:00 Tools
Not in Memphis 00:00 Tools
Take'em Or Leave'em 00:00 Tools
Shipbuilding 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Ten Cats Down 00:00 Tools
Painting Blue (on everything) 00:00 Tools
Washing Machine (Live) 00:00 Tools
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
Washing Machine - Live 00:00 Tools
Washing Machine (Epitonic saki Sessions) 00:00 Tools
Last Rock 'N' Roll Boy to Dance 00:00 Tools
Take'em or leave 'em 00:00 Tools
You're Not in Memphis 00:00 Tools
Amy LaVere - Killing Him 00:00 Tools
The Last Rockin' Roll Boy To Dance 00:00 Tools
Come On 00:00 Tools
03 - Red Banks 00:00 Tools
Great Divide 00:00 Tools
02 - You Can't Keep Me 00:00 Tools
Red Banks (Epitonic saki Sessions) 00:00 Tools
10 - Cry My Eyes Out 00:00 Tools
I'll Remember You (Bob Dylan cover) 00:00 Tools
Red Banks (feat. Will Sexton) 00:00 Tools
Overcome (feat. Will Sexton) 00:00 Tools
Sun Studio Sessions - Killing Him 00:00 Tools
07 - Tricky Heart 00:00 Tools
08 - Stranger Me 00:00 Tools
Railroad Boy (Died of Love) (Epitonic saki Session) 00:00 Tools
Seasick Boogie 00:00 Tools
Last Rock n Roll Boy to Dance (feat. Will Sexton) 00:00 Tools
It's the Thing to Do (feat. Will Sexton) 00:00 Tools
Day Like Any (feat. Will Sexton) 00:00 Tools
Tennessee Valentine (feat. Will Sexton) 00:00 Tools
Tonight Will Be Fine (feat. Will Sexton) 00:00 Tools
05 - Often Happens 00:00 Tools
04 - A Great Divide 00:00 Tools
Ship Building 00:00 Tools
11 - Let Yourself Go (Come on) 00:00 Tools
If It Were Mine To Keep 00:00 Tools
Good Old Time 00:00 Tools
Dreamer (feat. Will Sexton) 00:00 Tools
Washing machine 2 00:00 Tools
Cupid's Arrow (feat. Will Sexton) 00:00 Tools
Stranger Me (Epitonic saki Sessions) 00:00 Tools
06 - Lucky Boy 00:00 Tools
Never Been Sadder (Epitonic saki Sessions) 00:00 Tools
Painting Blue On Everything 00:00 Tools
09 - Candle Mambo 00:00 Tools
Candle Mambo (Epitonic saki Sessions) 00:00 Tools
Washing machine - reloaded 00:00 Tools
Lesson (feat. Will Sexton) 00:00 Tools
Damn Love Song, Produced by Craig Silvey for Archer Records 00:00 Tools
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Amy LaVere is an American singer, songwriter, upright bass player and actress. Based in Memphis, TN, LaVere's music is usually classified as Americana, combining a blend of classic country, gypsy jazz, and southern soul. She has released three albums on Memphis label Archer Records, and has multiple acting credits in major motion pictures. According to her Facebook page, LaVere "routinely gets antsy" [impatient, or restless] after she’s been off the road awhile. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana and a native of Bethany, Texas, she’s really more a child of America - a self-described “General Motors brat” whose father’s jobs kept her small family frequently on the move. Her life as a touring musician seems tailor-made for a woman who is seemingly one part upright bassist and another part gypsy. More recently LaVere says she’s been surprised at how much she’s enjoyed “nesting” in the Midtown Memphis home she shares with Paul Taylor, her boyfriend and collaborator. Typical afternoons have found her in between bursts of household chores, sips of warm tea, back-scratches for her lab mix, Charlie, and living-room band practice with Paul and guitarist Steve Selvidge. In the early evening, with the temperature hovering in the teens outside, there’s dinner as classical music plays underneath. Welcome to the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, right? But like the music on Amy’s stereo, this relative calm is merely a rest between movements. LaVere’s music jumps genres as a mix of rockabilly, jazz and bluesy balladry. She doesn’t like categorizing it anyhow, and feels boxed in even by the notion. As in “Killing Him,” she sometimes lets the specter of death or consequences of murder inform her thoughts on love. (These days, she’s shaping what you might call a Civil War post-murder ballad.) But the uneven intersections in her work explain why she makes her home at the musical crossroads of Memphis. The city has “serious pride in its history,” she says, “and I think Memphis walks a fine line with really trying to balance what is authentic… and also staying up with being progressive. It can be a real detriment to someone’s creativity to go into a town (elsewhere) that has a cookie-cutter sort of thing that’s driving the music industry.” Here, she says, there is a more ad hoc system that keeps the process organic, allowing artists “to feel more free.” She adds: “In Memphis, it’s perfectly acceptable if you want to wake up and drink a mimosa on your porch and then just stay drunk all day and have a social afternoon. It’s in no way looked down upon to truly relax here. It’s OK to just really enjoy life.” Though excited by the exposure $5 Cover will provide her music, simply participating in the project means “my dreams have been fulfilled,” she says. After small parts in “Walk the Line” and Craig Brewer’s 2007 film “Black Snake Moan,” she remains a performer who thrills whenever her music hits the radio. “I was out with Paul Christmas shopping, and I was worn out,” she recalls. “Paul went in to get a gift, and I was sitting in the van waiting on him. I was starving and cranky. And they played ‘Killing Him’ on the radio. And I said, ‘Awwww, they’re playing my song! It’s awesome to think you work hard at something, and it actually sees the light of day.” www.amylavere.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.