Lindsey Verrill is an American avant-garde

multi-instrumentalist A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays two or more musical instruments, often but not exclusively at a professional level of proficiency. Also known as woodwind doubler, doubling, the practice allows greater ensemble flexibility and mor ...

from Dallas, Texas who currently lives in

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Music career

Largely self-taught on cello and upright bass before studying music at the University of North Texas in Denton, Verrill became a key component across a number of indie bands in Austin as well as a founding member of the Austin-based Annie Street Arts Collective. She has performed with Ethan Azarian,

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, Will Johnson, Longriver,

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, some say Leland,

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, the Weird Weeds, and Ralph White. In 2017, she traveled to Germany, France, Japan, and Canada as a part of the ATX6. In 2015, she began performing her own material seriously as part of the experimental folk duo

Little Mazarn Lindsey Verrill is an American avant-garde multi-instrumentalist from Dallas, Texas who currently lives in Austin, Texas. Music career Largely self-taught on cello and upright bass before studying music at the University of North Texas in Dento ...

with Jeff Johnson featuring unusual instrumentation of banjo and musical saw. Verrill and Johnston started

performing at the iconic Austin venue Hole in the Wall, a known haunt of Austin figures such as

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and

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. Both Verrill and Johnston had been playing bass in bands, most notably with Austin musicians

Lil’ Cap’n Travis, Bill Callahan and others. Little Mazarn was a band where neither of them wanted to play the bass on stage. Little Mazarn was named after a river in northwest Arkansas. In 2019,

followed up their 2017 self titled EP with their first full length album, Io, a work of folk minimalism including a melancholy reinterpretation of Dancing in the Dark by

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. The album mainly featured banjo and saw with contributions from guest vocalists Will Johnson and Kendra Kinsey as well as instrumental contributions from

and Ralph White. In 2022,

released their second album ‘Texas River Song’ on

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, a so called ‘Geographic love letter’ to Texas, written in 2020 after the pandemic put a complete stop to touring and traveling. .

Discography

Source: * "''Mustang Island''" (Dear Life Records) 2025 * "''Honey Island General Store''" Album by

with special guests

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, Acre Memos (Double Yolk Records) 2023 * ''No Ordinary Crown'' by Will Johnson (

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) 2023 * "''Texas River Song''" Album by

with special guests

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(

) 2022 * "''Werewolf''" Single by

with special guests

, Craig Ross,

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(

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) 2021 * ''3 & 4'' by

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& Friends (

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) * ''2 Songs'' by the Andrew Weathers Ensemble (Timesuck) 2020 * ''As We Go Wandering'' by

2020 * ''El Capitan'' by Will Johnson (Keeled Scales) 2020 * ''Patty Griffin'' by

(

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) 2019 * ''Io'' by Little Mazarn 2019 * ''Wire Mountain'' by Will Johnson (Keeled Scales) 2019 * ''Of Seasons'' by Longriver 2019 * ''Little Mazarn'' by Little Mazarn (Self Sabotage Records) 2017 * ''From the Forest Came the Fire'' by

(

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) 2016 * ''Bay of Seething'' by Moonsicles (Feeding Tube Records) 2016 * ''Ralph White and Little Mazarn'' with Ralph White 2015 * ''

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'' by Patty Griffin (Thirty Tigers) 2015 * ''Creeper'' by Moonsicles 2014 * ''Brought Low'' by Some Say Leland 2014 * ''Leelanau'' by Dana Falconberry (Antenna Farm) 2012 * ''The Weird Weeds'' by the Weird Weeds (Sedimental) 2012 * ''Help Me Name Melody'' by the Weird Weeds (Autobus) 2010

References

External links

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Little Mazarn Official Site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Verrill, Lindsey 1982 births Living people American cellists American banjoists Songwriters from Texas American bass guitarists Musicians from Austin, Texas American multi-instrumentalists Indie musicians