Lucy Woodward

LUCY WOODWARD releases her 7th studio album Stories From The Dust. It is perhaps her most personal album yet, and as crafted with Grammy Award-winning co-producer David Garza (Fiona Apple), the tracks and melodies pull you toward Lucy’s poignant insights of matters of the heart in the world’s fragile present. Recorded at Sonic Ranch on the border of Mexico and Texas, Dust features longtime friend and bass extraordinaire Tim Lefebvre and keyboardist Larry Goldings, who has written with Lucy for the album. Bill Withers and Nina Simone, two artists she already loved, were her touchstones, while she added inspiration from the deep rivers of Americana, blues and Flamenco, and the epic female choir sounds from Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66. Lucy soon found herself writing songs like she’d never written before or maybe never even thought about writing before. Stories about women, the ones she grew up with—the fiercely independent and unconventional women who raised her—and those she merely observed from afar, whether in the sandbox or on the subway. “A different kind of songwriter in me snuck up on me and hit me hard,” Lucy says. Stories From The Dust is rootsy and melodic, continuing a decades-long streak of craft oriented, critically acclaimed full length albums from the native New Yorker.

Lucy has toured all over Europe at jazz festivals and venues such as Istanbul Jazz Fest, Blue Note Milan and London’s Ronnie Scott’s. Her trio captures the essence of Lucy’s bluesy and fiery to sweet vocal range with their unique arrangements of her songs, allowing her to float over their funk-driven pulse and infectious hooks co-heightening the sound of who they are together. 

 

Born in London and raised in New York and The Netherlands, Lucy was raised by her musicologist / bellydancer mom and conductor/composer dad. After early acceptance to Manhattan School of Music at age 16, she left wanting to start her own band, write songs and sing jazz standards in NYC coffee shops. She started doing session work which led her to LA where she started a bi-coastal artist life. She has touring/recording credits such as Rod Stewart, Celine Dion, Chaka Khan, Charlie Hunter and Pink Martini. She collaborated for many years with the Grammy-winning band Snarky Puppy as far back as 2011 until recently when her and Charlie Hunter opened for the band at Royal Albert Hall. Lucy recorded the highly-viewed song “Too Hot To Last” which was featured on Snarky Puppy’s Family Dinner Vol. 1 album, earning them their first Grammy. Lucy’s voice and songs have also appeared on countless movie soundtracks.