Laura Jean steeps her songs in the lore of the American West, refracting its triumphs and tragedies through an intimate lens. Laura Kepner-Adney, the lead singer and guitarist in the Tucson-based Laura Jean Band (formerly Laura and the Killed Men), shades her voice with echoes of honkey tonk and Appalachia. Her expansive lyricism highlights her connection to Arizona’s unforgiving environment, and her songwriting weaves together the disparate elements of what has defined country music throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.