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CONTACTS
MANAGEMENT
Jody White [jody at jdwhitemanagement.com]
BOOKING
Frank Riley [info at highroadtouring.com] (US)
Ben Martin [ben at marshall-arts.co.uk] (Europe)
PUBLICITY
Andy Prevezer [andy.prevezer at warnermusic.com] (Europe)
LABEL
Polymer Sounds (US)
Munich Records (Europe)
Shock Records (Australia)
Jessica's cover of Buddy Holly's "Words of Love" appears on the Starbucks compilation Sweetheart: Our Favorite Artists Sing Their Favorite Love Songs. Click here for Pitchfork's preview and full track listing.
Jessica's song "Kiss Me Again" appeared on CW's hit series Gossip Girl, episode "Carnal Knowledge" (Season 2: Episode 17). Click here to visit the Gossip Girl website.
Starbucks selected Jessica's song "For Today" for their Have You Heard?: Winter '09 compilation.
Jessica's song "Bible Days" made an appearance on the CBS series CSI:NY, episode "Dead Inside" (Season 5: Episode 7). Click here to watch the full episode on the CSI:NY website.
In a dreary sea of songwriters, her writing encapsulates that special certain emotive quality that is tough to find and even tougher to put into words. read interview
Concert Review
November 19, 2009
by CAROLINE SHADOOD
Everything about singer-songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield is both incredibly practiced yet incredibly sincere—a binary that becomes only more compelling in consideration of her 1989 birthday. view article
July 29, 2009
produced by JASON MILLER / ETHAN PAYNE
During a recent stop in Athens, GA, Jessica met up with the guys at Athens Soundies, who describe their site as "a series of one take, low-fi, live sound music videos." We think they do a cool job. Check out Jessica's intimate, acoustic performances of "Kiss Me Again" and "Grown Man." watch videos
Austin American-Statesman Best Bet
July 21, 2009 by BRIAN T. ATKINSON
Jessica Lea Mayfield's starkly confessional With Blasphemy So Heartfelt shades blossoming romance with deep shadows. Key element: the 19-year-old's desert sunset voice. Accordingly, Mayfield's emotive debut, a moody folk-pop collection both ambient and ambitious, has thrived as a television soundtrack. view Q & A
Most gothic at No Depression Festival: Jessica Lea Mayfield
July 13, 2009
by ANDREW MATSON
Jessica Lea Mayfield is a legitimate Queen of Darkness. view article
Concert Review
June 3, 2009
by BEN RATLIFF
Her country-rock is wary and passive and trancelike, and kind of way out. The songs document love relationships from a vantage point so abstracted that it might be a space satellite. Growing up in a family bluegrass band in Kent, Ohio, she made her first record at 15, perfecting the sound of withdrawn emotion. She’s in a special position for someone so young, and she hasn’t gotten there by giggling. view article
USA Today: Pop Candy
June 2, 2009
by WHITNEY MATHESON
I saw Jessica Lea Mayfield, who put on a mesmerizing, heartfelt show with her band. I melted during "Kiss Me Again" and got quite excited when she brought out the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach for the last couple songs. (He produced her stellar debut.) She's still on tour, so see her if you can. view article
11 Saddest Cover Songs in Music History
May 21, 2009
Esquire magazine recently named Jessica's cover of Buddy Holly's "Words of Love" one of their "11 Saddest Cover Songs in Music History." view article
Mountain Stage
April 21, 2009
With a stark, haunting voice and swirling layers of guitar, Mayfield performs six songs from With Blasphemy, with her brother David on bass, Anne Lillis on drums and Richie Kirkpatrick on guitar. view article / listen to session
Daytrotter Session
April 16, 2009
Illustration by JOHNNIE CLUNEY
Words by SEAN MOELLER
Mayfield has such skill in her songwriting craft at such a frighteningly young age that it’s all the more remarkable – the pace and the voice and the tone of her words, like a forest whispering throughout the night – that she already can make unforgettable music seem so easy. view article / listen to session
Number One Album of 2008 - With Blasphemy So Heartfelt
Best New Artist of 2008 - Jessica Lea Mayfield
December 18, 2008
By THE BLURT EDITORS
And as we lived with the album, the realization grew that we were witnessing the flowering of a major artist; so much so, that in addition to picking With Blasphemy So Heartfelt our top album of 2008, Mayfield must surely be our Best New Artist, too. That's our own imprimatur, certainly, but when you consider some of the musicians she edged out - among them, Lykke Li, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes and She & Him - it's nothing less than an article of faith, too. view article
World Cafe Studio Sessions
December 9, 2008
Jessica played a session on NPR's World Cafe. The session included "We've Never Lied", "Kiss Me Again", "For Today", and an interview with host David Dye. To listen to the session, click HERE. Be sure to check out the web-only outtake of "I'm Not Lonely Anymore".
Review of With Blasphemy So Heartfelt
Rating: 8.2
November 11, 2008
By STEPHEN DEUSNER
Jessica Lea Mayfield sings with a drawl that goes slightly flat when she sustains notes and gives certain words the semblance of regional color. It could be a personal characteristic of her downcast voice, or perhaps a nod to her Rust Belt upbringing, but the 19-year-old singer/songwriter, who recorded her 2007 debut under the name Chittlin', sounds immediately distinctive and poised on "Kiss Me Again", the opening track on her second album, With Blasphemy So Heartfelt, calling to mind but ultimately surpassing comparisons to Hope Sandoval or Syd Straw. "You can kiss me again if you want, I don't mind," she sings, yet she sounds actively invested in her romantic passivity-- a fascinating and endlessly listenable contradiction. continue reading
as I ate some pancakes this morning at IHOP 'Kiss Me Again' came on over their in store stereo, they sandwiched you between a block of cheesy 80s music and Christmas music, I believe I was just as bewildered as I was delighted to hear your song
If we all know nothing ( of where we come from & where we are going) all we can do is be lost. Thank you for your beautiful mind, music and lyrics. Like I said before listen to your music is a real ( blast for me ). thanks. trev
