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South X Lullaby: Lucy Dacus

Dacus performs "Historians," from her deeply personal and triumphant new album, in an art installation at SXSW that evokes the challenges of human communciation.
Lucy Dacus performs a South X Lullaby.

The idea behind our South X Lullaby series was to offer intimate moments with musicians as an antidote to the commotion and deluge that for her Lullaby and found out she'd perform "Historians," a most somber song from her deeply personal and triumphant album , it felt just right. It's a song of reflection, the story of two intertwined partners and the way they document one another's lives and preserve each other's memories.

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