If you watched Sunday's True Detective season 2 premiere, you probably wondered who that was singing that (almost comically) bleak song in the corner of the dive bar where Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell met. The song is called "My Least Favorite Life," and the singer is a real life, Nashville singer-songwriter named Lera Lynn.
She also performed the (far superior) song "The Only Thing Worth Fighting For" that accompanied the second season's first trailer. (File this under "songs I'm currently obsessed with.") The song was commissioned for the show by the show's creator, and written by Rosanne Cash and T-Bone Burnett, who handles all the music for True Detective.
Her most recent release is 2014's The Avenues, which was critically acclaimed.
Before that she released an EP called "Lying in the Sun," and before that a bunch of stuff I haven't checked out yet.
She is, as they say, easy on the eyes.
For fans of ethereal country/folk, Caitlyn Rose, Pieta Brown, Amanda Shires...
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That didn't take long.
