Gigi Love

GiGi Love. If the name sounds familiar, perhaps it’s because you were among the thousands listening to her open for the Dave Matthews Band, or playing at the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

Maybe her infectious sound—those smoky vocals and revealing songwriting loaded with energy, vulnerable passion and delicate poise burned a memory. Whether armed with an electric guitar or her worn acoustic, Love leaves an indelible imprint while juggling blues and rock with country and folk. Close of the heals of her hero, the great Loretta Lynn, Love’s influences include Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin, and Neil Young.

Like Willie Nelson, Gram Parsons and Townes Van Zandt, she earned her honky-tonk chops in Texas. At the age of seven, Love began performing and playing guitar. By 12, she was filling venues with names such as Johnny High’s Country Music Review in Ft. Worth, and the Grapevine and Stephenville Opry Houses in Texas.

While at Southern Utah University, she founded the Gigi Love Band and played regionally throughout the west. After hearing her play on night, a rep from Yellow Moon Records signed her for her first album, Scorpio Rising (1997), which sold more than 3,000 copies regionally. Her second album Coyote Bones (2000) is a beautiful example of her rousing acoustic performance style. Love’s third album, Turning to Gold was released in January 2005. Returning home from her 2005 spring tour of Holland, Germany and the UK, Love is now on the festival and coffee house circuit for the rest of this year.
John Clarke Jr.
Rolling Stone and New York Times Journalist

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