Tweet Photo: Alysse Gafkjen If you were to sketch out the path that led Lydia Luce to the release of her second album Dark River, you would see two very distinct segments: the months before March 3, 2020, and everything that has unfolded since. Over the past several years, Luce has cemented herself as one of the local music communityâs most prominent creative figures, thanks to her incredible talents as a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her reputation as a sought-after string player has led to her performing on tracks for Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Joshua Hedley. But Luceâs talent for writing music that draws on the richness of postwar vocal pop and the intimacy of contemporary folk-pop shines through her solo work, which many heard for the first time on her 2018 debut record