Laura Mae socks

With an upbringing only Dolly Parton could relate to, Laura Mae writes contemporary classic songs drawn from a life of perseverance, spirit, and wild heart. Born in a trailer without running water, she began her life on the side of the Blue Ridge Mountains.


Laura Mae explains, “People in my family don’t make albums. I was the fifth child of six to a hay and straw farmer dad who raised us alone mostly. I lived in 17 houses with various family members and friends all before I was 17 years old, including the condemned house you’ll hear about in the true story of my mom ‘Racing Wanda’––it’s full truth about my mom Wanda. We raced cars when I was a kid (which is also why I’m standing on a racetrack on my album cover) so that’s what my dad called her when she "got crazy" (she had bipolar disorder), Racing Wanda.”


Laura Mae formed her first country band at the age of 23, playing honkytonks and dance halls from Lafayette to Montpelier, but it took a terrible year, which began with the end of her marriage and concluded with the death of her mother, to get Laura Mae writing her own songs. 


In her grief, Laura Mae packed up her life, put it in a car and found herself driving towards a 5000-acre crawfish and rice farm in Southwest Louisiana, where she would end up living for the next five years. Spending many hours in solitude under the vast open skies of the Cajun prairie, Laura Mae wrote the songs that became Where You Go.