LYONS & CO.

Lyons’ honey-and-gravel sound is rooted in an upbringing soundtracked by Southern Rock, Delta Blues, and Chicago R&B. She learned how to play the guitar by watching her dad, a slide blues guitarist, and spent her summers working on her grandfather’s farm where the only radio station for miles got her hooked on country music.

Lyons’ music testifies to a life lived at the intersection of conflicting forces: violence and love, addiction and resilience, shame and triumph. With smoky vocals that catapult and glide from growl to wail to tender croon, Lyons sings honest songs about real people. Her sound challenges categorization in genre “norms” but has been referred to as “swamp rock”; grounded in the blues, folk, and Southern rock traditions.