WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month: Mama Zu

Posthumous music releases are tricky. Especially for the creative decision maker left behind. You’re navigating loss, assumption, expectation, doubt... all without input from the voice. In the case of Mama Zu, the voice is Jessi Zazu, a crucial figure in the Middle Tennessee indie music scene who died from cancer seven years ago at the age of 28. Before her death, Zazu had been making what became Quilt Floor with Linwood Regensberg her longtime bandmate in Those Darlins and the person responsible for finishing Mama Zu's recordings without her. There had been talk of the recordings around town for years but it took time for Regensberg to even restart it.