| Clover-Lynn | |||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Franklin County, Virginia, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Instruments: | banjo | ||||||||||||
| Genre: | gothic country bluegrass | ||||||||||||
| Years Active: | 2019–present | ||||||||||||
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Clover-Lynn, also known as hillbillygothic, is an American bluegrass and gothic country musician and TikToker. She is the banjoist of the band Clover-Lynn and The Hellfires.
Clover-Lynn grew up in rural Franklin County, Virginia. Her family has lived in the Appalachia region of the Virginian Blue Ridge Mountains for over two-hundred years. She was raised in the Baptist tradition.[1]
Clover-Lynn grew up listening to country and bluegrass music, citing The Stanley Brothers, Flatt and Scruggs, and Rhiannon Giddens as early influences.[1] She worked in the tech industry on the west coast before moving back to Virginia to pursue a career in music.[1] She is the lead of the band Clover-Lynn and the Hellfires, formerly called the Laurel Hells Ramblers.[2] [1] In 2024, she performed at the Floyd Country Store music venue in Floyd County, Virginia.[1]
Clover-Lynn amassed a large following on the social media platforms TikTok and Instagram, under the username hillbillygothic, where she posts videos of herself playing the banjo and combatting misognyist and anti-LGBTQ content.[3]
She is a transgender woman and part of the goth subculture.[4]