For Lauren Lovelle, being involved in music was inevitable. At the age of four, she was  singing Hank Williams’ “Your Cheatin’ Heart” with her dad’s band, Two Way Traffic, in Wichita. It’s no surprise, really, given the musical history on both sides of her family.

“My mom comes from a musical family,” Lovelle says. “Her grandpa was buried with his harmonica in his hands, and everybody said he was a legend. Like, he was a shredder.”

Lovelle’s dad grew up a preacher’s kid and got his musical training through the church and singing hymns, but that whole side of the family was also into folk, country, and blues, continues the singer, with her paternal grandfather going on to teach Lovelle how to play guitar herself.

“And then my dad’s grandpa—who died when my dad was young—at one point was

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