Jenny Mae Leffel has died. The Columbus, Ohio singer-songwriter passed away following “complications due to alcoholism,” according to her former label Anyway Records. She was 49 years old. Leffel performed in a band called Vibralux before going solo, recording under the name Jenny Mae. She released a split single with Guided By Voices in 1993, with Robert Pollard praising her as one of the finest songwriters he’d ever met. Her debut album There’s a Bar Around the Corner…Assholes was issued in 1995. Another full-length, Don’t Wait Up for Me, would follow in 1998 to critical success.

Around the turn of the millennium, Leffel moved to Miami to prepare her next album, where she began to experience problems with substance abuse and began a struggle with bi-polar disorder. She moved back to Columbus in 2005; a third Jenny Mae album never came to fruition.