Songwriter Lucy Dacus is now Philly’s own, but her new album is a musical memoir of her childhood...

PHILADELPHIA — The day before she began a three-show run at Johnny Brenda’s to close out 2019, Lucy Dacus moved to Philadelphia. Dacus had grown up in Richmond, Va., where she was attending film school at Virginia Commonwealth University when songs she recorded for a school project became her career-making "No Burden," a breakout album of 2016. After touring behind her 2018 follow-up, "Historian," and joining Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers in the indie supergroup boygenius, Dacus (pronounced DAY-cuss) needed distance from her hometown. That realization led to "Home Video" (Matador *** 1/2), ...