I didn’t fall to pieces, but I fell in love with this girl. Lillie Mae Rische drew me in at first sight and sound. She is a folk/country singer with attractive looks and great personality. Not only can she sing like Nancy Griffifth (with a touch of Taylor Swift and a pinch of Joan Baez), a little moody and smokey at times, she also plays the fiddle amazingly well. At LeMars she carried ahead of her a whiff of world travels and bigger things to come.

Lillie Mae has a CD out called “Rain on the Piano”. She wrote several songs on it herself. I liked each one of her poetic tunes. Her work has a consistency about it, showing that she knows what style she is driving. “No surprise that Lillie Mae Rische is a complete bad-ass and an all-round powerhouse of melody,” her ThirdMan Store record distributor writes. No wonder, she is a Nashville girl.

And then there was this dude by the name of Frank, maybe Carter or maybe Rische. Methinks he is related to Lillie Mae. He played guitar so handsomely. Here he is with “Gentle on My Mind.”