Lucy Angel...it’s a name that immediately evokes the playful image of a femme fatale who is a taste of heaven spiced with a touch of mischief. It’s a fitting moniker for one of the hottest new acts in country music. Collectively known as Lucy Angel, the trio of Kate, Lindsay and Emily Anderton has been attracting attention all over the world with their vocal firepower and sassy stage presence.

In an industry that has long been dominated by demure female ensembles, Lucy Angel is a breath of fresh air. They are three beautiful women who know how to take a song and turn it into a memorable event. Whether it’s a poignant country ballad or a foot-stompin’ blues rocker, the girls in Lucy Angel extract every ounce of emotion from a lyric. It’s that talent that has made fans of acclaimed Music Row songwriters like Jeffrey Steele and Al Anderson, both of whom contribute songs to Lucy Angel’s debut disc.
  
Produced by Scott Baggett, Lucy Angel’s project captures the energy and personality that has earned the trio fans from Alabama to Japan. They’ve opened shows for some of the top names in country music, won over fans in rock ’n roll bars, performed on Delbert McClinton’s Blues Cruise, and have built an enthusiastic fan base in Japan.

“It’s really fun music,” Lindsay says of the Lucy Angel sound. “We have one ballad on the whole CD.”

“It’s all up tempo and has a great groove to it,” adds Kate. “Al Anderson and Jeffrey Steele have written most of the songs.”

The women paid their dues on the way to recording their debut disc. Kate comes from a musical family. Her dad was a performer and her brother is currently an opera singer. Kate’s father was also a military man so the family traveled extensively. The pretty blonde loved performing every chance she got and that early ambition paid off when she won the Wrangler Country Showdown.

Lindsay and Emily grew up watching Kate perform. Yes, although you wouldn’t know it to look at the trio, Kate is the mother. It’s a relationship that reveals a close and loving familial bond. But, the mother-daughter relationship doesn’t limit the range of their music in any way as one might suppose. 

“I’m very proud to be their mother,” says Kate.  “But we’re not necessarily trying to capitalize or focus our music on that aspect of our relationship.” As Lindsay always says, “We’re just three chick singers trying to get along.”   

When the Andertons moved from their home in Arizona to Nashville, they began soaking up everything Music City had to offer. “When we first got here, we went to shows every night,” says Kate. “We’d go watch other performers and it’s like going to school. You’re watching the best of the best here—the best singers, musicians and songwriters.”

They began polishing their act and soon became in-demand live performers with bookings in Japan as well as all over the United States. This year after attending the Academy of Country Music Awards, where they were a big hit on the Orange Carpet, the girls caught a red-eye back to do a show in Huntsville, Ala. They thought it was a country music bar, but soon realized it was a hip-hop joint. “It was a college night at the mosh-pit,” recalls Lindsay, admitting the group was a little worried about how they’d be received. They shouldn’t have been. “It went over great and they loved us. They were a great audience.”

When it came time to record the debut project, Lucy Angel wanted a producer who would help them capture the magic they weave on stage and someone who shared their creative vision. They found exactly what they were looking for in Scott Baggett. “He’s great!  We couldn’t have found a better producer,” enthuses Lindsay.  “He’s been more than a producer.”

Kate says Baggett has great ears and that he shared their vision for the Lucy Angel sound. “He wasn’t at all worried about doing mother/daughter type of songs,” confirms Emily.

Adds Kate: “He said ‘That’s inconsequential,’ and I loved that because other people were saying ‘Well you have to do appropriate music for mother/daughters’ and I’m like… ‘What? I don’t want to!’”
  
As a result, the Lucy Angel disc is filled with songs that percolate with attitude and unique observations on life and love. “We did all guy songs,” says Lindsay of the fact that the tunes they cut were written for male artists. “It’s not your typical girl stuff. There’s lots of attitude. You can pretty much dance to every song on there.”

The trio serves up plenty of attitude on cuts such as the rollicking “Wantin’ Not the Gettin’” and the sultry “Obsession.” “‘Just About every Night’ has a Beatles flare to it,” says Kate. “Then there’s ‘You Turn Me On,’ which we call our ‘country and eastern song.’ It was written by Kim Carnes, Al Anderson and Jeffrey Steele.  It’s very different.”

In addition to the feisty, fun-loving songs, Lucy Angel shows a softer side on the poignant ballad “Why’d I Ever.” It’s a vulnerable confession from a woman who knows she should have never let herself love the guy. The breathtaking performance is tender, bittersweet and completely unforgettable.

“We spent a lot of time before we even went in the studio just playing with harmonies and singing the songs differently to get a feel for the sound we were going for,” says Emily.

Adds Lindsay: “One of the things Scott liked is that we trade off lead vocals, not just having one person doing the lead. Sometimes we even break up the verses.”

“We really broke all the rules,” Kate says matter-of-factly.

Breaking all the rules--and doing so in stiletto heels and cherry red lipstick with blonde hair flying…. that’s Lucy Angel.  It’s a heavenly slice of country music unlike anything Nashville has heard before.