Jacqueline Lalley
/ Songwriter, Vocalist, Bassist /
Jacqueline Lalley is a writer, bassist, and singer living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She's played upright bass since childhood and also spent a few years studying classical guitar. She is a writer of nonfiction and poetry with an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and was a headline writer for The Onion. She is a member of the Milwaukee-based old time / bluegrass band Pay the Devil.
Jackie was born in Philadelphia but her family settled in Madison, Wisconsin, where she grew up as the youngest of four children, learning bass in the public school system and going to punk, folk, and rock shows in the 1980s and 1990s. She started writing poetry in high school and became an activist, cofounding the newspaper The Madison Insurgent. After working at a software company and attending community college, she transferred to Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, then spent 10 years in Chicago, working for a nonprofit and writing poetry. After moving to Milwaukee in 2003 and starting a family and a business, she picked up the bass again, joining Pay the Devil. She started Warning Glory with Chuck Lawton in 2022.
Chuck Lawton
/ Guitarist, Vocalist, Multi-Instrumentalist, Producer /
Chuck Lawton is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer living in Milwaukee, WI. With a spark nurtured by his father, Chuck took to music at a young age, learning bass, guitar, percussion and vocals. Starting with American roots rock and blues, Chuck has explored a variety of genres across his career including co-founding Milwaukee's gypsy-noir band, The Vitrolum Republic and is a member of SONOf, a folktronica band also based in Milwaukee.
Producing and recording has always been an interest and for the past 20 years, Chuck has managed and grown a project studio where his bands and friends can come and make music. His most recent album, For the Lovespun Ramblings and Ghosts in our Shoes, by The Vitrolum Republic, received nominations from 88Nine Radio Milwaukee for Album of the Year and Independent Release of the Year in 2015.
In 2022, Chuck joined Jackie in starting Warning Glory and exploring these bluesgrass sounds.