Banjo, voice, cello, electric bass, upright bass, bass vi
Musical artist
Lindsey Verrill is an American avant-garde multi-instrumentalist from Dallas, Texas who currently lives in Austin, Texas.
Music career
Largely self-taught on cello and upright bass before studying music at the University of North Texas in Denton, Verrill became a key component across a number of indie bands in Austin as well as a founding member of the Austin-based Annie Street Arts Collective.[1] She has performed with Ethan Azarian, Califone,[2]Dana Falconberry,[3]Patty Griffin,[4]Thor Harris,[5]Will Johnson,[6] Longriver, Possessed by Paul James, some say Leland,[7]Charlie Sexton,[8] the Weird Weeds,[9] and Ralph White. In 2017, she traveled to Germany, France, Japan, and Canada as a part of the ATX6.[10]
In 2015, she began performing her own material seriously as part of the experimental folk duo Little Mazarn with Jeff Johnson featuring unusual instrumentation of banjo and musical saw.[11] Verrill and Johnston started Little Mazarn performing at the iconic Austin venue Hole in the Wall, a known haunt of Austin figures such as Townes Van Zandt and Blaze Foley.[12] Both Verrill and Johnston had been playing bass in bands, most notably with Austin musicians Dana Falconberry Lil’ Cap’n Travis, Bill Callahan and others. Little Mazarn was a band where neither of them wanted to play the bass on stage.[13] Little Mazarn was named after a river in northwest Arkansas.[14]
In 2019, Little Mazarn followed up their 2017 self titled EP with their first full length album, Io, a work of folk minimalism including a melancholy reinterpretation of Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen. The album mainly featured banjo and saw with contributions from guest vocalists Will Johnson and Kendra Kinsey as well as instrumental contributions from Thor Harris and Ralph White.[15]
In 2022, Little Mazarn released their second album ‘Texas River Song’ on Dear Life Records, a so called ‘Geographic love letter’ to Texas, written in 2020 after the pandemic put a complete stop to touring and traveling.[16]
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