Interview with Lillie Mae
Lillie Mae (born Lillie Mae Rische on June 26, 1990), is an American Country/Americana singer, songwriter, and fiddle player based out of Nashville, Tennessee. Mae and her family toured as a family band until her parents divorced when she was 11. The family then settled in Nashville and she began playing the local bars and honky-tonks with three of her siblings, Frank, Scarlett, and Amber-Dawn, in the group ‘Jypsi’. They signed with Arista Records in 2007 and had a Top 40 hit on Hot Country Songs the next year with “I Don’t Love You Like That”.Mae began doing session work for Third Man Records after Jypsi broke up, which led to her playing fiddle on Jack White’s 2012 and 2014 tours. In 2015 she released her first solo album, ‘Rain on the Piano’ on Southern Shift Records. In 2017 Lillie Mae released ‘Forever and Then Some’, her first album on Third Man Records.
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