“I love the idea of having a family band – and when I say ‘family,’ I don’t mean my children. I mean a group of people who play together for 20 years,” she told CMT Edge.
“That’s why I left Nashville for Memphis, really, because I saw that the environment in Memphis was more people who like to get together three nights a week and hash out material. And there’s this level of craft and kinetic energy that you can’t often get from a thrown-together band.”
Friday night, June 26, Chattanooga gets the benefit of those nomadic influences as LaVere takes the stage with her signature upright bass to headline the Nightfall Concert Series at Miller Plaza.
Success would seem to have come easily to LaVere. In 2006, she released her debut album, “This World Is Not My Home,” on indie label Archer Records to instant national acclaim. The Los Angeles Daily News raved, “Something like this doesn’t come along every day.”
Her second album, “Anchors and Anvils,” in 2007 rose to No. 6 on the Americana Music Charts and earned LaVere a nomination for the Americana Music Association Awards’ Best New or Emerging Artist.