Matson on Music
Music news, concert reviews, analysis and opinion by music writer Andrew Matson.
Subscribe
Comments (0)
E-mail article
Print
Share
Most gothic at No Depression Festival: Jessica Lea Mayfield
Posted by Andrew Matson
Jessica Lea Mayfield is a legitimate Queen of Darkness. The 19-year-old's mood and music made a big impression on me at Marymoor Park during the No Depression Festival Saturday.
Mayfield spoke slow, like she was sedated, and with an appealing lisp. She played even slower, strumming acoustic guitar with a lazy hand, singing from her stomach with what I took for unforced rural twang. There couldn't have been a better complement to her funeral-paced rock songs than her brother David's harsh, echoing guitar sound. It was like glaciers rubbing against each other. Together -- she in a black cowboy shirt worn as a dress, belt around her wrist-sized waist; he in wild auburn hair and long beard -- the Mayfields looked like they were in a world of their own.
"I'm Not Lonely Anymore" at No Depression Festival:
Album version of "I'm Not Lonely Anymore" after the jump (it's much milder).
Copyright © 2009 The Seattle Times Company
UPDATE - 10:00 AM
Recently listed
Popular searches
Dec 31 - 6:30 AM Premiere: 'Seattle Party' by Chastity Belt
Dec 31 - 6:00 AM 'Stop Biting' night at Lo-Fi now an album, mini doc
Dec 29 - 11:52 AM Were you there? 'The Rolling Stones' and Shabazz/THEESat
Dec 28 - 6:00 AM Top 40 of 2012, Seattle and beyond
Dec 27 - 6:00 AM Shabazz / THEESat: a history of high-concept Seattle shows
- Fasting woman to end attempt to ‘live on light’
- Reporter who broke story on Gen. McChrystal dies in crash
- ‘I don’t want to be only person cured of HIV’
- 2 charged with stealing 4.3 miles of copper wire from Sound Transit
- Man charged with tossing wife off cruise ship
- Temporary I-5 bridge opens to traffic
- Most Americans hate their jobs or have 'checked out,' Gallup says
- Many questions, few answers in death of Bellevue massage therapist
- O’Bannon case could change NCAA landscape
- It’s curtains for Seattle’s Egyptian Theatre
- Game thread: time for Mariners to surprise people 522
- Justin Smoak tries to save Mariners, reputation of young 'core' 95
- Justin Smoak appears headed up to rejoin reeling Mariners 94
- Taxi drivers stage a protest parade 92
- Most hate their jobs or have ‘checked out,’ Gallup says 86
- Woman trying to ‘live on light’ instead of food ends experiment 85
- A choice to be single in Seattle 56
- $231 million revenue jump could help break state budget stalemate 46
- Karzai: Afghan troops take lead to secure country 42
- Local governments spend big to lobby Legislature 38
- Most Americans hate their jobs or have 'checked out,' Gallup says
- ‘I don’t want to be only person cured of HIV’
- It’s curtains for Seattle’s Egyptian Theatre
- Fasting woman to end attempt to ‘live on light’
- Wheat scare leaves farmers in limbo
- One tough old bird rules the parking lot
- Report: Too many teachers, too little quality
- Temporary I-5 bridge opens to traffic
- 2 charged with stealing 4.3 miles of copper wire from Sound Transit
- Foodie secrets of Florida’s ‘Redneck Riviera’ are worth the quest
