Filtering years of journal entries, countless wry observations and tales of
awkward confessional angst into whip-smart indie rock, Lucy Dacus was quickly
marked out as a new songwriting talent when she emerged in 2016. Born in
Mechanicsville on May 2, 1995 and raised by an adoptive family in rural Norfolk,
Virginia - where her mother was a piano teacher and her guitar - playing father
had a healthy stack of Paul Simon, David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen records -
Dacus started performing as part of vibrant creative community in Richmond in
her teens, before studying film at the V...