I have been so excited about that news that she will be touring Europe soon: Jessica Lynn is such an amazing country artist, I just love the stuff she is doing. The more I am happy to be able to talk about her upcoming tour and other topics in my March 2023 Spotlight interview – you can find the tour dates on my European Country Tour Date Page – or just below this conversation.

Flyctory.com meets Jessica Lynn
FLYC: Jessica, you are about to tour Europe in 2023. How long did it take you and your team to set up all the tour dates?
Jessica: We are so excited. These are actually our rescheduled dates from 2020 so it has been a long time waiting for this tour. We began booking them in 2019!
FLYC: You will start at the end of May in Geiselwind and tour until end of July. The range of venues is very mixed, from major festivals to intimate venues. What is harder for? Intimate venues with a lot of personal contact or large, rather anonymous shows?
Jessica: They both bring their own special charm and excitement to a tour. The thing I love about more intimate venues is that you can really connect with the audience on a personal level and the thing I love about the larger venues is the energy, lights, and volume of the crowd. I wouldn’t say that I prefer one over the other, I love them just as much in their own special ways.

FLYC: The shows in Germany and Switzerland also feature trucker and motorbike festivals. The people there might not know your music yet. What is your key to success to win their hearts in these kind of situations?
Jessica: My key to a good show with an audience that isn’t yet familiar with my music is energy. My band is known for having a very high-energy and exciting live show. Even if people don’t know the music, we hope they will still be able to dance and sing along. I also feel like being my most authentic self is important in these situations. If I try to be someone else to “impress” or fit in with a new crowd, they won’t connect with me in the right way.
FLYC: The U.K. dates in July 2023 are rather typical club touring setups. Will you alter your program for these kind of gigs or do you typically feature the same songs?
Jessica: We definitely alter the program for these dates! In smaller venues you can play more intimate music and tell more stories about the music. When you are on a big festival stage, because of the energy in the venue, it’s important to keep the show moving. I enjoy putting some slower tunes in the club shows as well as being able to speak more directly with the audience.

FLYC: Especially at the beginning of the tour, there are some gaps in your schedule and you rather perform on weekends. Do you already have an idea how to spend the time in between? Do you maybe have time to explore Europe in the meantime?
Jessica: The difficult thing about the summer time is that many clubs in Europe do not open or operate fully and also that the all of the festivals are only on the weekend so there is a lot of competition for dates. We received offers for several more festivals but there were date conflicts because our weekends were already full or we were unable to travel to each location in time because there were too far. Usually, when we tour here in the states, we play at minimum 4-5 nights a week. Touring Europe is more relaxing in this way and yes we do lots of fun sightseeing in all of these beautiful places which is so amazing!
FLYC: How many people will (roughly) travel with you when you play in Europe?
Jessica: We will have 6 people in our travel party. 5 in the band and 1 crew to help us with merchandise and audio.
FLYC: Regarding featured songs: the tour will also allow you to present the songs of your most recent album, Lone Rider. Are there songs of that album you are especially curious about how they work out in Europe?
Jessica: Yes! I am SO excited to finally be playing this record live to a European audience. We have been able to tour it here in the states thus far but I am very curious if the favorites here will also be the favorites in Europe or if the most popular songs will be something totally different!
FLYC: After multiple EPs, Lone Rider has also been your very first album release. How important has that milestone been for you that for an artist?
Jessica: It has been very important and so exciting. I built my career being on the road so I physically had a difficult time having enough time in the studio to record an entire record. The pandemic allowed me to do that. It made me so incredibly happy that it charted so well. Here’s a little snippet of the success of the album:
On release weekend, Lone Rider hit the top of the charts. On Amazon Music, as the only female and independent artist in the Top 5, Jessica reached the #1 spot in both the USA & UK, as well as #5 all genre in the US and #3 in the UK. On iTunes, the release also charted in the US at #5 in country music and #17 all genre, as well as broke the Top 20 in Canada and the Top 50 in Belgium. Furthermore, in Lone Rider’s debut week, the record charted at #41 on the Top Current Country Albums Chart by Music Connect / Billboard securing Jessica’s spot as the only independent artist in the Top 45.

FLYC: Your songs regularly hit good positions in the iTunes Country charts. How much does that mean to you? Is there a shift in the importance of these charts? I guess in the past, the billboard chats.
Jessica: In this digital world – digital charting is very important. It is really amazing to see my music chart in so many different countries and resonate with many different people. It means the world to me.
FLYC: You started being on stage in New York City, which is also the city you were born. How difficult is it to succeed in the Big Apple – maybe especially for a female artist doing country music?
Jessica: Difficult! I had so many people doubt me in the beginning and tell me I couldn’t succeed. I used it as fire to keep going and I wanted to prove them wrong. I don’t believe that country music is where you come from but rather, how you tell a story.
FLYC: Your first song which attracted a wider audience is likely Favorite Stranger, which deals with the Alzheimer’s disease. Could you please tell us a bit, which made you write this song and how you got into its structure?
Jessica: My family knew a couple when I was a teenager in which the husband had Alzheimer’s disease. It was so heartbreaking to see his decline and how his wife took care of him. Even though I was only 15 years old, their love touched me so much and I was very inspired by them. The song basically wrote itself.
FLYC: Alzheimer’s disease is also a quite challenging and intimate topic, especially for the families and friends around. Did you ever wrote a song which you in fact liked, but finally decided not to publish it due to the topic?
Jessica: I have not! I think that music should be very raw, honest, and open and no matter what the topic, I believe it’s important to spread light and awareness. I released a song in November called You Save Me with British Army Veteran Liam Wakefield about mental health which is a very sensitive topic. Even when things are difficult to talk about, it’s important to do it.

FLYC: You are quite experienced in touring already. What is your biggest challenge when you are in another country?
Jessica: The language for sure! Sometimes it can be very challenging getting directions or communicating with organizers or sound teams.
FLYC: And, somehow vice versa, is there something you will be missing most while in Europe?
Jessica: My dog Audrey for sure. I adopted a disabled rescue dog during the pandemic and this is the first time I will ever leave her. It is going to be very, very hard for me.
FLYC: Finally looking forward to 2023 besides your tour. What are your plans for the year? Any new releases in the pipeline?
Jessica: I have several new singles in the works as well as a music video. I am very much so looking forward to what’s ahead.
All pictures are provided by the artist, copyrighted by Scott Vincent
Follow Jessica Lynn Online

Jessica Lynn – Europe-UK Tour 2023
As said in the interview, there is such a nice range of concerts on her list between end of May and end of July 2023 – I am sure that there is the right one for you as well:
Sa 27.05.2023 |
Geiselwind (Germany) – Truck und Country Festival |
|
Fr 02.06.2023 |
Gifhorn – KultuBahnhof |
|
Sa 03.06.2023 |
Lindow – Mustang Ranch Country Fest |
|
Fr 09.06.2023 |
Frantiskovy Lazne (Czechia) – Cowboy Billy Saloon |
|
Su 11.06.2023 |
Freiberg (Germany) – Pension Fischer Fest |
|
Fr 16.06.2023 |
Orpund (Switzerland) – The Ranch |
|
Sa 17.06.2023 |
Engelberg – Eienwaldli Fäscht |
|
Sa 24.06.2023 |
Interlaken – Trucker und Country Festival |
|
Su 25.06.2023 |
Interlaken – Trucker und Country Festival |
|
Sa 01.07.2023 |
Pfullendorf (Germany) – Biker Days |
|
Su 02.07.2023 |
Pfullendorf – Biker Days |
|
Mo 03.07.2023 |
Wiesbaden – German – American Friendship Festival |
|
We 05.07.2023 |
Cambridge (United Kingdom) – Junction |
|
Th 06.07.2023 |
Birmingham – Hare & Hounds |
|
Fr 07.07.2023 |
Leeds – The Playroom |
|
Sa 08.07.2023 |
Manchester – Gulliver’s |
|
Su 09.07.2023 |
Blackpool – The Waterloo |
|
Tu 11.07.2023 |
Southamption – Suburbia |
|
Fr 14.07.2023 |
Nürburg (Germany) – ADAC Truck Grand Prix Nürburgring |
|
Sa 16.07.2023 |
Erftstadt – Song of my Life (TV Show) |
|
We 19.07.2023 |
Hellwege – Musik im Salon / Cut & Music |
|
Fr 21.07.2023 |
Lübeck – Travemünder Woche |
|
Sa 22.07.2023 |
Sulomino (Poland) – Western Piknik |
|
Sa 29.07.2023 |
Mragowo – Piknik Country |
|
Women Country in my Spotlight Interviews
Here are all Flyctory.com Spotlight interviews, in which I chat with female country artists:
This episode of my Spotlight interviews was one I was looking forward to for a long time. Australian Chelsea Berman ...
A really nice way to see that Flyctory.com has established and has a certain history is that some artist happen ...
The British country music artist Twinnie will always be a special person to me. The very first time I saw ...
I am always flattered when there are new, interesting German acts who are releasing country music. This week on Flyctory.com ...
I follow the British country music artist Vic Allen since quite a while already. You also find some pictures of ...
What an amazing series of country music interviews on Flyctory.com in September 2022: after I finally managed to publish the ...
I simply cannot deny that I have been a bit more nervous before this Spotlight interview. While most of the ...
Great to have a new country music interview in my Spotlight section right at the beginning of August 2022! The artist I ...
Ontario, Nashville, Scotland - Brittany Brodie is home somehow in many places in the world. I have been in contact ...
Even though Stephanie Ryann is already in her mid-30's, the New England artist is not a stranger to North American ...
It's been quite a while since I published my last Spotlight interview. The more, I feel flattered to have a ...
A debut on Flyctory.com: this week, I am featuring a very special interview in my Spotlight interview category. While I ...
After my recent Spotlight interview episode with Christina Taylor, I feel really gifted to chat with another very interesting Nashville ...
It's been quite a while that I released my last Spotlight interview. The more I am happy that I have ...
Emma Stevens is not only one of the big names of the British country / folk music scene, she is ...
I am always happy to chat with German artists on my blog in the Spotlight interview category. Ann Doka is ...
Carrie Welling is a very interesting folk / Americana artist, who is nowadays living in Nashville. She was born in ...
Nikita Skogen just released her debut single, Break Your Heart. Nonetheless, the Norwegian country music artist already has gained comparably quite ...
When you look at European country music, you very often purely focus on British artists. However, the German country music ...
When I reviewed her album Lucky in mid September 2020, I felt that the bio information about the country artist ...
Emily Lockett is am impressive young British artist, just at the end of her teen-ages. After I saw her live ...
I am really gifted to chat with some interesting artists in August 2020 in my Spotlight interview section. Right after I ...
In my Spotlight category, I am dealing with another interesting artist. Sandra North is originally from Trosa South of Stockholm ...
Meeting Carolyn Miller and seeing her playing live on stage at the BB King was one of the hightlights during ...
When I was scanning songs for my New Country Hits Playlist, I ran into Lightning by the Colorado artist Kimi Most ...
I ran into the music of Sylvia Aimee, a Dutch country music artist, some one year ago. The quality of ...
Buy her incredible debut album No Saint during the C2C in Berlin in 2019 was maybe one of the events ...
Van De Forst is one of the most interesting German country music / country pop music act. Vanessa, the person ...
New York on Flyctory.com
Here are all postings about the “Big Apple”:
The world of spies and espionage is a hidden, but fascinating topic for many people. Spyscape in New York City ...
On my last Pittsburgh Penguins tour in April 2024, I also visited the away match at the New York Rangers ...
The World Floorball Championship Qualifications are in focus of my coverage this weekend. Nonetheless, I try to provide you with ...
has come to an end - and my Best of posting is the one which is "traditionally" concluding the year. The ...
The first one of my Best of postings at the end of the year is always reserved for looking back to my ...
New York City is full of iconic and strange places. Undoubtedly, the Museum of Sex in Manhattan is one of ...
Being on some sort of Lufthansa farewell tour after I decided not to prolong my Senator status gave me an ...
It's less than two weeks until I see Jessica Lynn live on stage again. Towards the end of the year, ...
Radio City Music Hall - if you played a show as an artist in this iconic place in the heart ...
Let's close the weekend with some goth metal. On 1st November 2024, the US-American project Neon Nightmare released their debut ...
Even though I was traveling on a sightseeing pass, I also visited some additional attractions during my time in New ...
I already took you to the American Dream in New Jersey twice. The iconic and very modern shopping mall features ...
There is a sheer countless list of reasons why one might want to visit New York City. The spirit of ...
Jordan Rudess is looking back to an amazing musical career (so far). The US-American artist, originally from New York City, ...
Even though the Grand Central Terminal (or: Grand Central Station) in New York City is a popular touristic attraction, it ...
This week is in focus of Jessica Lynn. I saw her show near Cologne on Monday and visited another concert ...
After featuring the Giovanni Zarrella concert the week before, another very special show was on my list on 12th August ...
I had three matches with the Pittsburgh Penguins in April 2024. While the first match at Madison Square Garden was ...
The same procedure as every year. The day when the NHL is releasing their match schedule for the upcoming season ...
Hotel pricing in New York is weird. It is very hard to spot a reasonable place for 250 USD per ...
The Ride NYC is a very fancy combination of exploring New York City - at least regarding their marketing. They ...
This week, I am in Munich, watching a couple of Rock of Ages shows. The week is more busy and demanding ...
He is a four time Grammy Awards winner and wrote global hits like Fly Away, Again, American Woman or Are You Gonna Go ...
Returning from the World Floorball Championships in Finland, heading directly to a business trip to Paris - this week was ...
The still rather cheap flight prices from Europe to New York City are tempting. However, if you book too early, ...
Hotel prices in the USA are getting more and more ridiculous and this require to go for some strategy and ...
There are several signs of Jewish culture in New York City, indeed. One of the most prominent ones is indeed ...
If you read the band name Folterkammer, which is German and translates to "Torture Chamber", you rather think that this ...
The Broadway is one of the key global centers for theatrical entertainment. With all the tourist attractions New York City ...
I spend so much time trying to get perfect shots for everyone else - this is how Sam Evian describes ...
From jazz to folk and country tunes - the range of music by nine time Grammy Award winner Norah Jones ...
Three times Grammy Award winner Bruce Hornsby meets the chamber ensemble yMusic. What started as a five concert series in ...
With 10,000 Volts, Ace Freshley feels to present a rather energetic album release. On 23rd February 2024, the former KISS ...
January 2024 has already passed and we are running into the first February 2024 edition of my weekly release radar ...
The Christmas weeks are typically the ones with the lowest number of releases. Unfortunately, quite the majority of the songs ...
After my previous Songs of the Week editions were rather pop-alike, I was rather surprised that my release radar this time is ...
If you solely take the ease of traveling as a criteria, I definitely took the wrong choice in regards of ...
Nowadays, you should definitely do one thing before you head to New York City as a tourist and explore the ...
I spent almost the entire week at work in Dublin at one of our offices. Quite an intense time, which ...
Maybe, due to the national holiday in Germany, the list of new songs was rather short on the platform I ...
September 2023 will be a quite busy monh. If I finally receive all press passes I envisage to get, there ...
Especially as a German aviation enthusiast, being on board of an aircraft carrier is just a cool experience again and ...
While I had quite an intense week in regards of scanning country music new releases, the German and international music ...
Learning by reviewing: I have to admit that I haven't been aware of the heavy metal subgenre of sludge metal, ...
Last week, the NHL released their schedule for the 2023-24 season. This typically means a bunch of work to me, ...
The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City also calls itself A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Even though I ...
When my wife and I headed to American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, we just aimed to enjoy the view ...
Through a German promotion agency, I ran into the US-American indie-pop duo Overcoats. The songs of the two female artists ...
If I could wish to see an artist live on stage for the first time, Sophie B. Hawkins would definitely ...
My March 2023 flights to some Pittsburgh Penguins matches had a nice highlight from an aviation point as well. For ...
After staying at the Conrad New York Midtown for two nights, my wife and I went for a more economic ...
Manhattan offers a lot of skyscraper platforms to enjoy the view of New York City. Some of them are or ...
Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, USA, Canada - and of course Germany lay ahead of me for the ...
Even though one of my early Flyctory.com posts was about my B777 Singapore Airlines First Class experience, it took me ...
When did Finnish game designer Jaakko Iisalo and Roivo Entertainment have a first feeling that their Angry Birds will become ...
The last posting of the year - Best Ones 2022 is introducing you to my best experience last years (as ...
Since I started working with Flyctory.com, I present you a list of my favorite songs at the end of every ...
While Madame Tussauds London is the heart of the wax museum empire, their outlet in Manhattan is likely not less ...
Rockefeller Center is an iconic place in New York City - not only before Christmas, when they put up the ...
Even though it nominally was the lowest standard hotel of my short trip, I was really looking forward to the ...
Once upon a time there was an above-average bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey, right on the opposite site of the ...
Manhattan is somehow the ultimate and maybe best known skyline in the world. Not too surprisingly that all around New ...
Starting a short trip to New York in style: Majorly due to the great location next to Carnegie Hall, my ...
Classic rock meets funk - that's about the concept behind the Moon City Masters. On 4th November 2022, they are ...
Being in a room full of projections of pictures painted by Monet of Van Gogh became a global attraction. It ...
The last three months of the year are about to start. Traditionally, the focus is rather on well-known artists, their ...
After I gave you an overview of 2022 European appearances of my favorite musical Rock of Ages, I felt to ...
Sometimes, I just need to dare doing something new on Flyctory.com. Like this review. Jeremy Black is doing experimental electronic ...
New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA) is not regarded to be the nicest way of air traveling in and around the ...
For the very first night of my Weird Al Yankovic trip in April 2022, I needed to have a reasonably ...
The last entry of my (multi-day) trip reports is typically a bit of boring. Getting to the airport, flying back ...
First day of my Weird Al trip in April 2022. I was initially even thinking about merging it with Day ...
Sharing my travel experience following Weird Al Yankovic on tour in North America is somehow traditional on Flyctory.com. Even though ...
The very first night of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022 lead me to New York City. Finally, my ...
Some two years after I reviewed his album Shapeshifting, Joe Satriani is back with a new album, Elephants of Mars. I was ...
Jon Spencer is definitely not regarded as an introvert artist. He is doing songs somewhere between blues, punk, garage and ...
Already right on the very first day of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip in March 2022, I visited the new home ...
Day 2 was just so exciting to me: the first time being back in Pittsburgh since two and a half ...
Time to see my hockey team again! The first day of my Pittsburgh Penguins trip to the States did not ...
Two years without visiting the United States are about to come to an end: in March 2022, I had planned ...
SMKC is a magical abbreviation in rock music business. It merges guitar giant slash, legendary Myles Kennedy and band member ...
Rickie Lee Kroell, the second time: I just introduced you to the pop artist and her new EP Hauptsache was mit ...
In later 2021, I ran into the music by German-American artist Rickie Lee Kroell by a contact to her promotion ...
Jeffrey Mitchell Ross wrote music history as the lead guitarist of Lou Reed. That's quite a while ago and Ross ...
After I have already been struggling with the idea of the Songs of the Week, the feedback on my previous edition ...
I typically don't like to review three song EPs. But in some cases, I am just too curious - or ...
The Altas Underground series continues: just some six weeks after Tom Morello released The Atlas Underground Fire, which was full of amazing ...
Synthpop? Post-Punk? New Wave? It is really hard to describe the genre created by the duo X: THC. They reached ...
Bruce Springsteen, Bring Me The Horizon or Chris Stapleton - already the list of guest musicians of Tom Morello's 2021 ...
Echo Bloom is a very interesting band project. They released three albums so far, each dedicated to an individual genre ...
When I ran into the debut album by Ben Rice, Future Pretend, I initially thought he is a blues musician ...
An Overview On Phaenomenal Nature - when I read about Cassandra Jenkins 2021 EP, I just felt this could be ...
Using tennis language, Haley Mae Campbell was some sort of lucky looser of my review selections on 12th February 2021 ...
It has been a bit tricky to search for Patty Smyth's 2020 album It's about time. Smyth has been a music ...
When a Rock'n'Rock Hall of Famer (which he was inducted to in 2014 as original KISS member) is releasing a ...
After Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open 2020, charts like the one by below by the German Data Journalist Felix ...
Meeting Carolyn Miller and seeing her playing live on stage at the BB King was one of the hightlights during ...
Dion is one of the best singers in the world of music. The Rock'n'Roll Hall of Famer released a very ...
Lady Gaga is one of the very, very big names in music industry. You just do not have to introduce ...
It is really tough to select the right achievement to describe Joe Satriani's career in one fact. Over ten million ...
I have to admit that American Airlines Admiral Club Lounges are not really my favorite place. Some are functional, some ...
30th August had quite a couple of album releases. While I published my view on Sheryl Crow's Threads and Tarja's In The Raw ...
After two days of Weird Al Yankovic concerts and a memorable Day 4 with my sports idol Leander Paes and ...
The first entry of a trip report is typically full of stories about airports, airlines and flying. My trip to ...
Can you imagine what the highest-rated attraction in Germany, according to Tripadvisor, is? Cologne Cathedral? Wrong! Neuschwanstein Castle! No! And ...
After I had to book another hotel right across the street for the first night to get a low airfare, ...
Many of you might watch the Tennis US Open at Flushing Meadows on TV. Some take-outs like interviews on the ...
I was looking forward to my second day of visit at the US Open. Divij Sharan's match was of course ...
My fifth visit at the tennis US Open is the shortest one - arriving on Thursday afternoon by British Airways ...
British Airways flight BA 1 has always been on my bucket list. The very special connection between London and New ...
On my Easter trip with Sarah, we had the opportunity to test Polish LOT's Premium Class, their interpretation of Premium ...