Photo Blog #4
So most people who know me know that I love to take photos. I love to shoot live action photography and put it out there for the entire world to see. I rarely get the urge to write though. Its just not something I do unless I get REALLY inspired. Well last Friday night at Daveys Uptown I was inspired!

Her name is Lydia Loveless and she is like nothing ive ever heard before. Looks a little like Pink, sounds a little like Cindy Lauper, just the right amount of fucked up like Shane Macgowen.
All night long during her show I struggled to find something to compare her to.
Okay, shes a country music singer. Then she played a Replacements cover. So its Cowpunk. Then they played a Def Leppard cover. After covering GG Allin and Loretta Loretta Lynn I gave up and thought, this is just a bad bitch!
And playing for an audience of about a dozen people she sang out like it was the Ryman. Songs about stealing another woman’s man, other women stealing her man, drinking, fucking and murdering her father.
As i heard lyrics like “Well he held me close and told me that I was the one, he said let me show you how to have some fun. And my Daddy didnt like that so guess what he done, Well he shot the only man I ever loved” or “as i recall the way that we were on that night that we met, we’d been lovers for a long time but we weren’t in love just yet”, i saw that she was young but had already lived a lot or at the very least spent her life listening to stories about people who have.
It was one of those night where I looked around and couldnt believe there werent more people there to witness such an amazing show. Those who were there, got a real treat.

And now, onto something I do a little bit better…..the photos!

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