Amy LaVere and Will Sexton come to the Bottom Line on June 8
Who: Amy LaVere and Will Sexton
What: New York City concert
Where: The Bitter End, 147 Bleecker St. between Thompson St. & LaGuardia Pl.
When: Sunday, June 8, $22.73, 7:00
Why: “Maybe I was thinking of you / Maybe I think about you all the time / Whenever I see your number / Come into my telephone line / Feels like I conjured you up / Kinda like I made you call / Or maybe I’m just never not thinking about you at all / Or could we be powerful? / Do you feel the same? / If I can bring you on / Just thinking ’bout a song / I don’t wanna jump the gun / But we could be magic,” singer-songwriter and bassist Amy LaVere sings on her new single, “We Could Be Magic.”
Be on the lookout for that tune and such others as “No Battle Hymn,” “Take ’em or Leave ’em,” and “Dreamer” when LaVere and her husband, guitarist and songwriter Will Sexton, come to the Bitter End on June 8. Based in Memphis, the Shreveport-born LaVere — a budding novelist — and Austin native Sexton have been collaborating for eleven years, releasing such albums as Runaway’s Diary and Painting Blue, playing a riveting melding of Americana and indie folk. They are also part of the band Motel Mirrors, with drummer Shawn Zorn and guitarist John Paul Keith.
“Maybe we’re the ones to get it done,” LaVere sings at the conclusion of “We Could Be Magic.” You can find out if they are Sunday night at the Bitter End.
[Mark Rifkin is a Brooklyn-born, Manhattan-based writer and editor; you can follow him on Substack here.]