GOLD HILL -- The dead nettle gets its name from its physical appearance. Though its leaves are shaped the same as a common nettle plant, the dead nettle, part of the mint family, doesn’t sting and blossoms with distinctive purple flowers.
Lindsey Wall has particularly connected with the dead nettle. Having worked with flowers since she was in high school, she saw a dead nettle growing out of the concrete during a winter walk in Nashville.
Fascinated by its fierce and strong yet soft qualities, along with realizing that the name “dead nettle” sounds almost like “death metal,” Wall has since embraced Dead Nettle as her stage name.
While she didn't grow up in a family of musicians, music played around the house, and she gravitated towards it early on. She became hooked seeing her first live show, taking the leap into music in her early 20s, and she is now playing full-time.
She played her first open mic on a trip to Europe with her best friend, building her performances through more open mics and developing into paid performances.
She’s been touring full-time for the last few years, scheduling shows, promoting material, and creating merchandise herself. She works as a florist when she’s not performing.
She grew up listening to folk-leaning material, with artists such as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen shaping her music taste.
While she listens to a variety of styles and is currently working on material with rock influences, she is strongly rooted in folksier beginnings.
She started writing songs as she started playing open mics. She loves the process and is compelled by putting various puzzle pieces together into a full song. In 2022, she released her debut project, How I Thought, and in 2024, she released a follow-up EP, Arc.
For her, singing about vulnerable things is incredibly powerful, and when the subjects connect with both her and the audience, she finds it healing for both sides. She hopes to emphasize how important vulnerability is in her shows and performances.
Ultimately, she hopes that music proves to be as valuable to others' understanding of themselves as it has been for her understanding of herself.
She finds her songs and performing those songs incredibly healing, and nothing feels more right to her than embracing her music.
Dead Nettle will be performing at the Gold Hill General Store, located at 531 Main Street in Gold Hill, on Thursday, September 4, 2025, starting at 7 p.m. To learn more about her music and find her social media, head to her website at deadnettlemusic.com.
