Luckless
Live at The Darkroom
Christchurch (08/08/2013)
This was something special... over two sets Ivy Rossiter (Luckless), just a beautiful girl and her guitar, made my heart reel and ache. With a stripped back skeletal guitar sound, heavy on the reverb and distortion, a strong confident voice of bruised sensuality and lyrics that seemed so personal I imagined them coming straight, un-edited from her diary, she held me spell bound from beginning to end.
Though-out I was reminded of early Cat Power ('Myra Lee', 'What Would The Community Think'), Jason Molina, Billy Smog, even Hank Williams with his 'high lonesome sound', very No Depression broken heart-on-sleeve (alt) country. In amongst her own songs she scattered a selection of covers - Springsteen, Billy Bragg, Leonard Cohen, Gillian Welch - inhabiting each and making it her own. Choosing to cover tunes by such heavy hitters as those cats is, I hope, an indication that she knows how good her own writing is.
So first thing on pay day I'm off to pick up her debut from last year... hopefully it will tide me over until the next time I get to experience some live heart ache.
Luckless - 'Hawks'
Luckless - 'Hummingbird Heart'
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