She remembers he helped her apply to a five-week summer program at Berklee College of Music in Boston, and she got in. It caused a rift with her father then, but she held firm. I want to go to college,'" she says.Ī childhood photo of Adrianne Lenker, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter in Big Thief. "After three years of all these adults pouring all this energy into me, I said, 'I don't want this. "Not recognizing the inherent beauty in each performance, but just making something good." Making music had become more about a successful product than meaningful process, and she knew then she didn't want to release the album they'd toiled over. "I'd gotten used to recording background vocals perfectly, doing 18 takes of them until they line up," she says. Her father was putting what money he could towards her musical career. They went to Nashville to track another as her family struggled financially. She recorded an album and released it, and a live album, too. As a young teen isolated from kids her age, she agreed, not quite understanding what that meant. It would be a full-time job, her producer had told her. "Since I didn't go to high school I truly view that time as my education, and they were my teachers," she says.
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He arranged sessions for her - professional sessions with professional session players. Her father encouraged her towards a music career and she took to it eagerly. She moved in with her father and worked on her music. Marotta would take her and her siblings to a chain diner called Perkins with green walls and tall, thin mugs for coffee. Marotta, was a rock in her life during that period. Her father put her in karate when she was 8. "I would much rather be in trouble in this random office than left out in the cafeteria," not knowing with whom to sit. "I was always showing up late so I could get lunch detention," she says. She struggled in school he showed her chords on the guitar.
mentioned in Capacity's lead single, " Mythological Beauty." "We'd live there for a couple weeks at a time and then we'd find a landing place." Landing places, like the rented house in Nisswa, Minn. "We had a van - a big, giant blue van - that we converted ourselves into a little home," she says. She remembers the uncertain periods that followed. Lenker was born into a cult in Indiana that her parents left when she was young. If Lenker's songs ring true to life, it may be because they're true to hers. Lenker's unflagging excavation of the meaning in her own life has given Big Thief's music its raw, vulnerable power. Before that album was even released, it had already recorded much of another: Capacity, an album that took Masterpiece's diaristic folk-rock, made myth of personal matter and, upon its release in 2017, accelerated the group's rise. Lenker's unequivocal, instinctive and deeply personal songs earned the band a spot on esteemed indie label Saddle Creek's roster, and its album Masterpiece established it as a breakout act of 2016. That closeness is part of what listeners hear and feel in turn from Big Thief's music. She forms the kind of closeness with others where she can write a song in someone's name and have it be in every part a song about herself, too. " Mary" is addressed to a dear friend, but Lenker often feels she's singing it to herself. A beloved song, " Paul," reads as a song about a male lover, but is actually about balancing two sides of her own personality. Names fill Lenker's songs as well: "Haley," "Mary," "Lorraine," "Paul," "Randy," "Jonathan," "Kerina." "Sometimes I need a name for themes in my songs, but oftentimes they're just about me or directed to myself," she says. "She's probably many things to many people," an old teacher of hers from Berklee College of Music says. She's Charlie sometimes to Mat Davidson of Twain, who opened at the first Big Thief show, and 'Aderrianne' to Max Oleartchik, the bassist in her own band. She's Dran to her sister and brother, and Lunx to her college bandmates. The lead singer of Big Thief is Anne or Anna sometimes to her parents Anna or Annie to her grandmother.
Those close to Adrianne Lenker know her by many names.
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