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JL: I think the last time I tried to do a count, I’m in eight bands.

BiTS: Eight is it? Wow.

JL: It’s a juggling act. Some of them perform more often than others. Some are just specialty
projects and the majority of them are with people who are exceptional musicians and they’re
professionals, so we all have tour schedules, and we have to kind of work together to
collaborate to find dates that work with everybody. So, for example, The Honey Larks, which is
my girl group that formed during COVID, that group only maybe performs three or four times

a year because all three of us are
front women and lead our own
The Honey Larks
bands. I recently started singing
backup in Gordon Sterling and The
People, which is a very well-known
band here in DC, and Gordon firmly
understands I love him, I love the
music. I can only say yes to the dates
that I’m already open on and he’s
cool with that. They just want me to
be a part of it. So as long as people
can work together like that, I will
juggle this for as long as I can and
then I’ll have to make some choices
[chuckling].

BiTS: Do you really juggle all this
yourself? Do you have a manager or
anything like that?

JL: I am a self-managed, self-booked
artist. In fact, during the day, I
worked for an entertainment agency
in DC called East Coast Entertainment as a booking agent and I think for me I enjoy the
business aspect of this all so much that it doesn’t seem like work to me necessarily to be out
there looking for places that want to present music and want to host it. For me, that’s fun and a
lot of musicians don’t feel the same way, but that’s part of how I juggle all of this.

BiTS: Over the years, Jenny, you’ve performed with a number of artists, Susan Tedeschi, Gov't
Mule, Nighthawks, Ron Holloway and Jimmy Vivino and all kinds of stuff like that, has there
been one gig that you’ve done that’s really for you been outstanding? When you were standing
on the stage or performing and you suddenly thought, what on Earth am I doing here? This is
absolutely wonderful.

JL: I’m very lucky to say that there’s been a handful of those moments for me. Some really
wonderful things have happened in the last few years that I’m grateful for. I think one of the
first times was at the Peach Music Festival in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and that’s the festival
that was started by the Allman Brothers, and it was hosted by them and I was playing there
with the Ron Holloway band and we were playing on one of the side stages after the big show
on the big stage, which was the Allman Brothers that night. And Ron Holloway, the
saxophonist, he’s very good friends with Derek Trucks, he’s very good friends with Warren
Haynes. He was in Susan Tedeschi’s band before she and her husband formed the band
together, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and so we’re getting our back line on stage and we’re getting