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Indie folk artist, Little Lonely, is the brainchild of Missouri-born, West Coast-based, singer-songwriter, Julie Cain. Known for her emotive style, her music evokes Dust Bowl salvation, roadside general stores and towns submerged in lakes for the sake of progress. With a highly regarded full length under her belt, her forthcoming ep, Velvety Pillow, offers up her most personal work to date - a bittersweet collection of songs exploring themes of sense memory, lost innocence, self worth and clunky goodbyes. Produced by Aaron Stern at Verdugo Sound in Los Angeles, the ep is set to release in fall 2024. Follow along at LittleLonely.com for updates.
 
 
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Indie folk artist, Little Lonely, is the brainchild of Missouri-born, West Coast-based, singer-songwriter, Julie Cain. Known for her emotive style, her music evokes Dust Bowl salvation, roadside general stores and towns submerged in lakes for the sake of progress. With a highly regarded full length under her belt, her forthcoming ep, Velvety Pillow, offers up her most personal work to date - a bittersweet collection of songs exploring themes of sense memory, lost innocence, self worth and clunky goodbyes. Produced by Aaron Stern at Verdugo Sound in Los Angeles, the ep is set to release in fall 2024. 
 
Little Lonely’s 2013 full-length record, produced by multi-instrumentalist, Sean Hoffman (American Music Club, Loch&Key, Linda Perhacs) features accomplished Indie-Rock, Folk and Americana musicians in Los Angeles: Darice Bailey (The Broken West, The Coals), Nic Chaffee (Eels, George Clinton) Greg Eklund (Everclear, The Oohlas), Joey Galvan (Pete Anderson), Eric Heywood (The Pretenders, Son Volt), Baskerville Jones (The Rebirth), Robby Marshall (Cassandra Wilson, Tom Jones) Heather McIntosh (Norah Jones, Gnarls Barkley) and George Sluppick (The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Mofro). The result combines hushed steel string horizons and echo drenched guitars with vocals that recall the plaintive wail made up of equal parts Maria McKee, Hope Sandoval and Julee Cruise. 

Top Ten lists, radio airplay and performances include:  Just Off the Radar, WUGA 97.9FM Athens, GA, international regular airplay on KOPN 89.5FM, Columbia, MO, Town & Country Underground Radio, Pasadena, CA, Roots Revival (Belgium), The Alternate Root Top Ten, 89.1FM Independent’s Day, KCRW DJ Valida’s Desert Nights at the Standard, Hollywood, a sold-out performance at Echo Country Outpost (Best Of List – Time Out LA) and a recurring favorite on the main stage at The Grand Ole Echo, the premiere Americana/Country music showcase in Los Angeles, co-founded by PR maven Kim Grant.
 
Little Lonely collaborates with Portland-based photographer, Wonder Bright, on guerrilla-style videos which are shot on iPhone and have a prominent sense of place. “Top Stair" (Real Roots Café and Band of the Day), starring dreamy LA pop duo Loch&Key, is set in Hoffman's Echo Park neighborhood studio bungalow. “Penny’s First Available” (Buzz Bands and Indie Musicology) features bucolic scenes in Glendale and a time capsule strip mall hair salon called Shampoo Conspiracy. “Interstate Hum” (Turnstyled Junkpiled) is compiled from rural footage from Cain’s home town in Missouri and show footage from Echo Country Outpost in Echo Park. “Furniture Land” moves from the Sunset Blvd scenes of Silverlake and Echo Park through Lincoln Heights and Glendale. “Carnival King” is an ode to MacArthur Park. Little Lonely also collaborates with artist/photographers Alex Loftus (Portland, ME) and Zoey Taylor (aka NoNamey of Portland, OR) to name a few. Kansas City-based fine art painter, Marcus Cain, is credited for works that appear in album art for Picture Show and Interstate Hum
 
Cain earned money in weddings and funerals in her teens, singing and playing organ in her hometown suburb of Kansas City. As a fine art student in San Francisco, and later Los Angeles, she combined her love of singing, writing and performance art as Bitsy Lee, a character inspired by her ancestors who roamed the Midwest playing in honky-tonks. She played shows and festivals with this outfit from SF to LA, then dropped the moniker to focus on her songwriting for her first ep, Interstate Hum ("moody, subtle, intelligent and, just occasionally, a little bit Patsy Cline" - Americana UK) with producers Greg Eklund (Everclear, The Oohlas) and Geoff Walcha (Everclear, Ben Harper.) A second ep, Picture Show (with guests Dead Kennedys’ East Bay Ray & Chuck Lindo (Actionslacks, American Professionals) followed, along with film placements in writer/director Barbara Stepansky's (Outlander) Broken Hill (Timothy Hutton), Hurt (Melora Walters) and her short film, My Own Private Demon.  
 
Little Lonely has performed in venues and festivals on the Los Angeles circuit and up and down the West Coast, sharing bills with notable up-and-coming artists Charley Crockett, Lauren Ruth Ward, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers and Jaime Wyatt, to name a few. Her music is widely available on all platforms. 
 
Photo Credit: NoNamey (Zoey Taylor)
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