Lillie Mae

Lillie Mae (born Lillie Mae Rische on June 26, 1991) is an American country and Americana singer, songwriter, fiddle and guitar player based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Career

Early career Lillie Mae Rische started playing and performing live at the age of 3. She started playing guitar at age 4 and started playing fiddle at age 7. Lillie Mae and her family toured as a family band for many years. Her father, Forrest Carter, left when she was 11.

Third Man Records and Jack White Mae began doing session work for Third Man Records, which led to her playing fiddle on Jack White's 2012 (Blunderbuss) and 2014 (Lazaretto) tours. She sang and played violin on "Did You Hear John Hurt?" and "We're Going to Be Friends" alongside Jack White.

Mae has appeared on all three of Jack White's solo records, as well as on The Raconteurs' 2019 album Help Us Stranger.

Solo career In 2014, Mae released her first solo song titled "Nobody's". In 2015 she released Rain On The Piano.

On June 23, 2017, Lillie Mae released Forever and Then Some on Third Man Records. The album was produced by Jack White and featured contributions from her siblings, Frank and Scarlett and McKenna Grace. It was produced by the Dave Cobb and recorded at Nashville's RCA Studio A.

Lillie Mae has performed as a solo artist on both Conan and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

She toured with Robert Plant's Sensational Space Shifters, opening most shows acoustically with her partner Misael Arriaga. Arriaga also plays in Lillie Mae's touring band.

Lillie Mae plays with her siblings still in the family band, (The Risches) and plays downtown Nashville at Layla's whenever she is not touring.

Discography

Studio albums Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales US Country Sales USHeat USTaste Rain On the Piano Release date: 2015 Label: Southern Shift Records — — —Forever and Then Some Release date: April 14, 2017 Label: Third Man Records 45 22 —Other Girls Release date: August 16, 2019 Label: Third Man Records 13 7 13 US: 1,600 "—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles "Nobody's" (2014, Third Man Records) Music videos Wash Me Clean (2017) Over The Hill and Through The Woods (2017) You've Got Other Girls for That (2019)