Laura Mae Socks Ushers in a “Golden Age of Country Music”
with New Album, Where You Go
With traditional sounds and contemporary lyrics, Appalachian-roots singer-songwriter Laura Mae Socks proves to be an enchanting storyteller
in her debut album.
“I wish I could get ahold of all these people on Facebook who are saying ‘country music ain’t what it used to be.’ It’s folks like Laura Mae who are proving these idiots to be dead wrong. What a pleasure to have someone like her to come along reestablishing what today’s country music should be like. So, let’s be grateful for artists like Laura Mae who are stopping the ‘Murder on Music Row.’”
– Doug Seegers, American Country Music Artist, Songwriter of
#1 hit “Going Down to the River”
“I’ve been waiting for this album from Laura Mae ever since I met here at Ernestine and Hazel’s in Memphis during the Ameripolitan Awards. And let me tell you, it delivers. Fast ones, slow ones, and all danceable of course. Classic sounds with contemporary lyrics make this album one of my favorite releases in 2019.”
– Jimi Palacios, Host NOLA County and Producer of
102.3 FM WHIV-LP New Orleans
August 26, 2019 (Nashville, TN)––For those awaiting a return to the golden age of country music, this is it. Praised by American Songwriter as a “long-gestating collection of hardcore honky-tonk numbers” and included in their picks for “Best New Music,” Laura Mae Socks’ debut album with Roundup Records, Where You Go (August 9, 2019), is already making an imprint on the country music scene.
With an upbringing only Dolly Parton could relate to, Laura Mae writes contemporary classic songs drawn from a life of perseverance, spirit, and wild heart. Born in a trailer without running water, she began her life on the side of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Laura Mae explains, “People in my family don’t make albums. I was the fifth child of six to a hay and straw farmer dad who raised us alone mostly. I lived in 17 houses with various family members and friends all before I was 17 years old, including the condemned house you’ll hear about in the true story of my mom ‘Racing Wanda’––it’s full truth about my mom Wanda. We raced cars when I was a kid (which is also why I’m standing on a racetrack on my album cover) so that’s what my dad called her when she "got crazy" (she had bipolar disorder), Racing Wanda.”
Laura Mae formed her first country band at the age of 23, playing honkytonks and dance halls from Lafayette to Montpelier, but it took a terrible year, which began with the end of her marriage and concluded with the death of her mother, to get Laura Mae writing her own songs.
In her grief, Laura Mae packed up her life, put it in a car and found herself driving towards a 5000-acre crawfish and rice farm in Southwest Louisiana, where she would end up living for the next five years. Spending many hours in solitude under the vast open skies of the Cajun prairie, Laura Mae wrote the songs that became Where You Go.
Inspired by Lucinda Williams, Son Volt, Neko Case, and the classic country tunes her mother sang in bars during her childhood, Laura Mae's songs weave conversations with friends, dreams, and even text messages into lush melodies that bring a contemporary twist to a bygone era of country music. Her powerful voice, haunting and uniquely her own, is punctuated by honest lyrics and well mastered sounds including pedal steel by Grand Ole Opry vetted musician, Leo Grassl.
Where You Go is available on Apple Music, iTunes, and Spotify.
with New Album, Where You Go
With traditional sounds and contemporary lyrics, Appalachian-roots singer-songwriter Laura Mae Socks proves to be an enchanting storyteller
in her debut album.
“I wish I could get ahold of all these people on Facebook who are saying ‘country music ain’t what it used to be.’ It’s folks like Laura Mae who are proving these idiots to be dead wrong. What a pleasure to have someone like her to come along reestablishing what today’s country music should be like. So, let’s be grateful for artists like Laura Mae who are stopping the ‘Murder on Music Row.’”
– Doug Seegers, American Country Music Artist, Songwriter of
#1 hit “Going Down to the River”
“I’ve been waiting for this album from Laura Mae ever since I met here at Ernestine and Hazel’s in Memphis during the Ameripolitan Awards. And let me tell you, it delivers. Fast ones, slow ones, and all danceable of course. Classic sounds with contemporary lyrics make this album one of my favorite releases in 2019.”
– Jimi Palacios, Host NOLA County and Producer of
102.3 FM WHIV-LP New Orleans
August 26, 2019 (Nashville, TN)––For those awaiting a return to the golden age of country music, this is it. Praised by American Songwriter as a “long-gestating collection of hardcore honky-tonk numbers” and included in their picks for “Best New Music,” Laura Mae Socks’ debut album with Roundup Records, Where You Go (August 9, 2019), is already making an imprint on the country music scene.
With an upbringing only Dolly Parton could relate to, Laura Mae writes contemporary classic songs drawn from a life of perseverance, spirit, and wild heart. Born in a trailer without running water, she began her life on the side of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Laura Mae explains, “People in my family don’t make albums. I was the fifth child of six to a hay and straw farmer dad who raised us alone mostly. I lived in 17 houses with various family members and friends all before I was 17 years old, including the condemned house you’ll hear about in the true story of my mom ‘Racing Wanda’––it’s full truth about my mom Wanda. We raced cars when I was a kid (which is also why I’m standing on a racetrack on my album cover) so that’s what my dad called her when she "got crazy" (she had bipolar disorder), Racing Wanda.”
Laura Mae formed her first country band at the age of 23, playing honkytonks and dance halls from Lafayette to Montpelier, but it took a terrible year, which began with the end of her marriage and concluded with the death of her mother, to get Laura Mae writing her own songs.
In her grief, Laura Mae packed up her life, put it in a car and found herself driving towards a 5000-acre crawfish and rice farm in Southwest Louisiana, where she would end up living for the next five years. Spending many hours in solitude under the vast open skies of the Cajun prairie, Laura Mae wrote the songs that became Where You Go.
Inspired by Lucinda Williams, Son Volt, Neko Case, and the classic country tunes her mother sang in bars during her childhood, Laura Mae's songs weave conversations with friends, dreams, and even text messages into lush melodies that bring a contemporary twist to a bygone era of country music. Her powerful voice, haunting and uniquely her own, is punctuated by honest lyrics and well mastered sounds including pedal steel by Grand Ole Opry vetted musician, Leo Grassl.
Where You Go is available on Apple Music, iTunes, and Spotify.