Musicians flock to the closest big city and cling to it, often using it as a declaration of identity. Matt Skiba associates more nowadays with Chicago and San Francisco than his McHenry roots. Josh Caterer continues to embrace Carpentersville for both his Duvall and Smoking Popes days. Lissie acknowledges and entwines with her Rock Island roots and its moonlit Mississippi banks. As with all resilient, creative youth in small towns and cities, Lissie's defiant essence tossed and tasseled her to Colorado State University, Paris, Los Angeles, Ojai, and Tennessee before settling-for now-along the Thames. The one unknown locale being a quiet town of 8,000 in California where she rented a previously unseen farmhouse.
The alternating keys of "When I'm Alone" leaves the listener in a trance as her country vocals mix with a jazzy depth akin to Deanna Devore. The song opens up like farm roads during the choruses with her voice soaring with a deceptive freshness and clarity compared to her mature, whiskey tinged voice. Her pick up truck "that roared like a lion" continues into "In Sleep." This could be considered a standard track on Catching a Tiger where her genius lies in the subtleties and strengths hidden within her singing. The way she can manipulate around and above notes draws the strongest comparison to fellow folk darling Laura Marling.
Lissie managed to sow the seeds of country music acquiring new fans in borrowing and returning the sugar of pop, the rope and trucks of country with the resilient handicraft of indie rock. "Loosen the Knot" blends an element of Tegan & Sara's ridged vocals with Lissie's songwriting, leading straight into the phenomenal pop of "Cuckoo." It provides a perfect one-two punch that convinced this writer to reconsider his country ban; an element only select artists achieve in a listener's ear.
Catching a Tiger had its reign over the United Kingdom prior to its release in the United States this week. With her hard-fought, wandering backstory and an undeniable vocal and guitar talent, her debut should assure a warm welcome home when she returns to Illinois' riverbanks, city lights, lake shores, and starry nights.
Lissie managed to sow the seeds of country music acquiring new fans in borrowing and returning the sugar of pop, the rope and trucks of country with the resilient handicraft of indie rock. "Loosen the Knot" blends an element of Tegan & Sara's ridged vocals with Lissie's songwriting, leading straight into the phenomenal pop of "Cuckoo." It provides a perfect one-two punch that convinced this writer to reconsider his country ban; an element only select artists achieve in a listener's ear.
Catching a Tiger had its reign over the United Kingdom prior to its release in the United States this week. With her hard-fought, wandering backstory and an undeniable vocal and guitar talent, her debut should assure a warm welcome home when she returns to Illinois' riverbanks, city lights, lake shores, and starry nights.
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Posted by: John Brunner | 08/23/2010 at 05:14 PM
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We had the pleasure of meeting Lissie for an interview and she was a delightful person as well as talented musician.
Here is the interview: www.milkyteakid.com
She is a talented rapper too!
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