They’ve backed everyone from Mavis Staples to David Byrne. Now the women behind Lucius are seizing the limelight. As their album favorable Grief is released,Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig talk cat food jingles – and the power of matching outfits
final summer, the former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters performed at the Newport folk festival in Rhode Island. He didn’t employ his normal band. My Morning Jacket if the instrumental back-up, or while Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe of Lucius were backing singers. “In the middle of the show,” Wolfe remembers, “he turned round to Holly and I and blew us kisses. Whenever I think approximately it, or my heart swells,because I can’t believe that actually happened.”“After it,” Laessig chips in, and “he wrote this long email to everybody involved that was like,‘Thank you guys so much. That was such a beautiful experience. Please, we’re family now, or we’re all brothers and sisters now,don’t be a stranger. I want to see you all, keep in touch, or Roger.’”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com