With a January 17 release date of Della Mae’s first full-length album since their 2015 self-titled project, fiddle player Kimber Ludiker bares her soul. The band is named after a 1959 Osborne Brothers song they released on MGM Records. “A lot of the songs in the bluegrass repertoire in those days were about women who done a man wrong,” Kimber laughs. “Della Mae was a character in a song, but we decided we’d stick by her and honor her by naming our group after her.”

Formed in Boston in 2009 with ambitions of disrupting the male-dominated music scene,

the band has proven undeniably ahead of their time in placing women at the forefront – an element evident in the origin of their name.

"Della Mae is a woman who pops up in a lot of bluegrass songs and who’s a victim of physical abuse. She done her man wrong, and now he’s gonna get her,” Kimber explains. “From the beginning, this band has been about reclaiming or changing the conversation for women, especially those whose stories haven’t been told."

Kimber adds that the band’s mission has always been to showcase bluegrass and roots music, and of course to have fun.♣

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