Thursday 10 September 2015 2015
The Best In TownBeing the best in town is nothing new for Meschiya Lake. Even more than two decades ago at the age of nine when both the town and Lake were much smaller. Looking back, it’s no surprise that when a precocious nine year old Lake hit the stage for a singing contest at a Rapid City, South Dakota, steakhouse, she already believed that she belonged.Lucky DevilIn 2007 she began singing with the Loose Marbles, a traditional jazz outfit on Royal Street; a year later she formed the Magnolia Beacon with Erika Lewis; in the Spring of 2009 she went on to create The Little Big Horns Jazz Band. Their first CD, Lucky Devil, features a top-of-her-game Lake using the full range of vocal and songwriting skills she’s developed through lessons, experience, and hard work since first hitting that South Dakota stage. On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in 2010, Lucky Devil was honored by David Kunian on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered as one of his four favorite albums of the year.
With already two more albums with The Little Big Jorns Jazz Band she continues to blow everyone away with her damping New Orleans Jazz.
“For real: This record’s a songbook of anthems for the shifty and the shiftless, an invitation to have a cold drink, hit the dance floor and flat get it, fast and slow, all night long until you never knew you had any cares in the first place.” – Gabe Soria New Orleans March 2013
