Lauryn Peacock Album & 7" Studio Recordings

Trailer with release dates! NEW ^^^


                            Welcome to the GoFundMe page! 

      I’m releasing music for the first time in five years – and asking for your contribution, even just to donate directly for the music itself.

     In asking you to support me, I am also very excited for the opportunity to give back to my own community in tangible ways.

       15% of all proceeds will go to Gideon’s Army and tornado and COVID relief in North Nashville.

This campaign is aimed at financing the recording, mixing, mastering, and printing of a batch of new music that I will share with you in the form of an album called Theology (out 3/12/21!) – and two singles that will comprise a 7” record!

See the trailer for the documentary, along with the GoFundMe video (and the trailer with release dates, above), for a peak into the studio process.

Every bit helps - THANK YOU!

Documentary Trailer: https://youtu.be/hYVYxwGuG1c


(Scroll, Pressing 'Read More,' to check out Rewards!)



ABOUT ME - And this work:


     Faced with a global pandemic while working on her third masters (an MFA in poetry at New York University), Lauryn Peacock found a way to record her third full-length. The result is a both in-your-face and often subtly beautiful and arty manifesto, Theology, and two irresistible, pop-infused singles to be released on a 7” called Quarantine Love. Much of this work was written during a summer in France pursuing her second masters, this one in theology (gender, sexuality, art, religion, and culture) at Vanderbilt’s liberal and social justice focused Divinity School. Peacock came to this with a deep concern over issues of racial and socioeconomic equality, LGBTQIA+ rights, and the distortion of religion in the unfortunate name of bigotry. The songs on Peacock’s forthcoming album and EP cover everything from environmentalism, gay conversion therapy, poverty and how well we (don’t) deal with it, love and breakups and relationships, to the human experience of lament and joy.  

     Lauryn Peacock is a storyteller, a creative writer, a poet -- a writer's writer and a musician's musician. Peacock says, "Nashville, perhaps more than any other place, has made me appreciate the simple song form and increased my desire to communicate more clearly in my music." She has been compared to both Laurie Anderson and Sara Bareilles. Peacock was born in Illinois and spent her childhood between the Chicago and San Francisco areas. She started her official journey into music at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, made waves in Philadelphia, and now resides in Nashville, TN. Peacock is known for her maverick keys, quick hand on the electric and acoustic guitar, her soaring yet intimate, lilting vocals, and her heartfelt, sharp writing. 

     Peacock rounds out her classical training in piano that reaches back into the beginnings of her childhood with 18 years of ballet and French. She toured the East Coast playing synth and organ for Philadelphia’s mewithoutYou and had the opportunity to play with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy during two house concerts for charity. On her first records she worked with co-producer Daniel Smith (Sufjan Stevens, Danielson Family) as well as collaborated with Denison Witmer (Asthmatic Kitty Records) and composer Joshua Stamper (Sufjan Stevens collaborator, National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell Fellow). This all led to WXPN proclaiming: “Lauryn Peacock has the range of a musician who’s been playing her whole life.” 

     Peacock’s most recent work has included quarantining, many face masks, and recording to tape with a whole lot of heart. She has laid down her hardest-hitting record - reminiscent of Nico and at times the Velvet Underground - in the space where Alabama Shakes created their breakthrough effort, with co-producer Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Josephine Foster) and a band rich with guitarist John James Tourville from The Deslondes, bassist Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather fame, Molly Parden (Andrew Combs, Liza Anne), and Meg Coleman, known for her other-worldly drum sound. 

     Peacock hopes this work, which encapsulates the many roads she has lived in recent years, brings the hope, catharsis, and peace emblematic of truly honest and engaged art to her listeners, in these uncertain and unpredictable, anticipatory times.   


Musical Guests

Composer Joshua Stamper (Sufjan Stevens collaborator, National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell Fellow)

Notable co-producer Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Josephine Foster)

Jack Lawrence, bass (The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, The Greenhornes)

John Joseph Tourville, guitar (The Deslondes)

Meg Coleman (magic drum sounds in Nashville)

Molly Parden, bgvs (Andrew Combs, Faye Webster, Liza Anne, Bjorn and the Sun, Bifrost Arts, Sam Outlaw)

Ian Miller, synth / organ

Laura Epling, violin (Moon Taxi, Lockeland Strings, Harpooner)

Lydia Luce, viola (Lockeland Strings)

Kristin Weber, violin (Lockeland Strings)





REWARDS:   

10 dollars:  Digital download of the full-length album

15 dollars: Digital access to the music in all forms it is released  - Album, 7”/Singles

25 dollars: Full digital access to all recordings + T-shirt (including children's option) + Individual song in-studio play-through videos + music videos + recording documentary + choice of swag (button or screen-printed patch)

50 dollars: All previous rewards + Choice of 2 t-shirts (including children's option) + Euphonia vinyl

100 dollars:  All previous rewards (including choice of 2 t-shirts) + A personal letter from the artist + All three previous CDs (Two full-lengths and EP, + digital holiday EP) 

200+ dollars: All previous rewards + Private zoom meeting with the artist about the creative and recording process - Includes performance




When you give, send a message w/ your size, design/color, swag / reward preferences & mailing info! (See options below!)
(*for T-shirts, include a few ranked options!)

Reward Options:      #SWAG

Please head here for T-shirt options (just for type, color, sizing)!
https://laurynpeacock.bandcamp.com/merch/t-shirts
Children's:
https://laurynpeacock.bandcamp.com/merch/childrens-t-shirt-renaissance

Please check out swag options, here!
Buttons: https://laurynpeacock.bandcamp.com/merch/buttons-swag
Patches: https://laurynpeacock.bandcamp.com/merch/patches-swag

Euphonia vinyl: https://laurynpeacock.bandcamp.com/album/euphonia

Two full-lengths, EP CDs (Euphonia and Keep It Simple Let the Sun Come Out & Fairly Busy Wife EP and digital holiday album):
https://laurynpeacock.bandcamp.com/music




Why Giddeon’s Army?
Organizations like Gideon’s Army are doing great things to help put individuals and families on their feet with dignity, especially in North Nashville. They are committed to processes of restorative justice, working directly with children and families to end the school to prison pipeline, and are fully committed to meeting folks’ immediate and global needs - such as permanent housing, food in the short term, and providing myriad other forms of support. In the wake of the tornadoes and now job loss and further difficulty and financial, housing, and food insecurity, as we navigate the novel coronavirus – and amidst our collective struggle toward racial and economic justice and equality – we need these kinds of helpers more than ever. 

When the tornadoes ripped through North and East Nashville on March 3rd this year, I felt my love for this town (and all of its people) affirmed and reconfirmed. I knew I wanted to give money as part of this fundraising campaign to help with relief efforts; this desire only deepened when we all began feeling the effects of the COVID19 pandemic, even as the project was put on hold.

I would like to dedicate 15% of any funds you give, here, to Gideon’s Army and relief in North Nashville, to do what we can to ease the effect these events and inequities have wrought on livelihoods, individuals, families, and the community. This money will go directly to those affected, who are rebuilding (and staying afloat). The need is still great. If we do really well, we would also potentially be able to also dedicate a portion of the monies to helping our friends in the service and entertainment industries, through community funds that have also been set up during this time. 15% of anything also over and above our goal will continue to go directly to all of these needs.




Y’all,


I have been so fortunate to be working with this wonderful studio and such inspiring musicians; we have documented the process. I am so excited for these sounds and to share them with you!!

Love.




Thank you AM?PM Video!
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