{"id":7601,"date":"2011-10-27T16:06:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=7601"},"modified":"2011-10-28T21:23:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T21:23:50","slug":"the-real-country-no-13-lydia-loveless-jesus-was-a-wino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-10\/the-real-country-no-13-lydia-loveless-jesus-was-a-wino\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Country No. 13–Lydia Loveless “Jesus Was a Wino”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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She’s a little bit punky; she’s a little bit country.\u00a0 21-year old Lydia Loveless<\/strong> grew up in a musical family with a rock drummer-dad (he plays on her albums) and otherwise surrounded by country music in Ohio.\u00a0 Like another young Ohian, Jessica Lea Mayfield<\/strong><\/a> (what is it with Ohio?), Lydia’s vocals remind you of Neko Case<\/strong>, but also of seminal female country singers such as Loretta Lynn<\/strong>. \u00a0 Her songs are all over the map stylistically (fast, anthem, ballad, humorous ode, you name it).\u00a0 And Loveless ladles on loads of lyrical lines that stick to your cerebellum and heart (Salty lyric alert<\/strong>:\u00a0 she is not afraid to hide anything and tosses off some vulgar vernacular and ribald phrases–Amen!).<\/p>\n

To start getting Lovelessed, go over to MTVHive<\/a><\/strong> and check out her song, Jesus Was a Wino<\/strong><\/em>, off her brand new album, “Indestructible Machine<\/strong>.”\u00a0 And then below, check out an in-store performance of that same song, which, amongst other things, recognizes the Son of Man’s<\/strong> empathy for the earth’s downtrodden.\u00a0 At MTV Hive <\/strong><\/a>Loveless said this about the song: \u201cI\u2019ve always seen wine as a really biblical thing.\u00a0 Growing up and drinking it in church for communion, and when I got older, meeting a lot of Christians who think it\u2019s sinful to drink. It\u2019s poking fun at people \u2013 it\u2019s not anti-Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n