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Lavender Blue is the musical alias of guitarist and songwriter Kayla Zuskin. Fusing electric guitar with minimalistic vocals, Zuskin’s compositions are musings on existence in a hazy and lo-fi landscape.

Lavender Blue was launched as a project as Zuskin was busking and traveling across the United States in the fall of 2017. Upon returning to Asheville in 2018, Zuskin wrote, recorded and co-produced her self-released LP Dusk.

Originally identifying as solely a guitar player and discouraged from singing by her family, Zuskin has been writing songs in secret since she began playing guitar in 2004. She channeled her desire to play and perform into the guitar, studying rock, blues, jazz, folk and their subgenres. This led her to attend Berklee College of Music (’15) where she studied guitar as well as recording and production.

It was only after her move to Asheville, NC in 2015 that she began playing and singing outside of her bedroom. During this time, she began trying to imitate the country, bluegrass fingerstyle playing she was hearing all around her. She also continued to play guitar in neo-soul, blues, jam and indie-folk bands. She is heavily influenced by indie-rock, folk songwriters, art, nature, film, and literature. The sum result of these multitudes of experiences is the sound that is Lavender Blue.

Lavender Blue currently resides and plays in Asheville, NC and plans to record a second album in the winter 2020.

Jellyfish Live for Acoustic Asheville

ft. Mike Johnson on Pedal Steel

Press

“The whole thing is simply beautiful, and it’s so good that it’s hard to believe that you’re listening to a DIY artist.”- High Clouds.org

“The love lost and found, is always kept lock and key, deep with a soul. Revealed in the sunlight, only for the holder to view, the icons of emotions flutter. And it flutters in “Give Me Metal or Give Me Death.” -Come Here Floyd

“Grace and subtlety are the hallmarks of this understated collection of songs.”-Mountain Xpress

Humans in Amante Feature- Coco Nuco

“With no accompaniment, no reverb, nor any other studio effects she pulls you into her world just as effectively as ever. Maybe, more so.”- Static Dive.org

I’ll Be Your Dog

Try and imagine you're in a cool, breezy space and contemplating love, life and death.

I'll Be Your Dog features two songs recorded straight to 4-track tape, live and fully acoustic in June of 2019.
These couple of songs were written following the wrap up of recording Dusk in summer of 2018 and have been on a slow low simmer of live experimentation.
What I've found is that they're best received in their purest form; how they were originally written.
released July 31, 2019

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Booking/Contact

Kayla Zuskin- kayzuskin@gmail.com