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It would be easy to misconstrue Lissie. Slight and blonde, a pretty, guitar-playing slip-of-a-thing, you might easily take her for a sweet Midwestern girl, a freckled balladeer borne of milk and cookies and cornfields. More fool you. For all the flaxen hair and big blue eyes, this girl is smart and gutsy and tough, with a big old voice to match it: Stevie Nicks taking Neko Case by the scruff of the neck, Laurel Canyon prettiness stewed in campfire and bourbon; there is, after all, a certain vocal quality that only a decade of beer and cigarettes can bring.
She was born in Rock Island, Illinois, one of the Quad Cities, on the banks of the Mississippi River. It's the city that inspired Rock Island Line, and that bore Bix Beiderbecke, it's the stuff of spring floods and pick-up trucks and bona fide blue collar country music. “I think that people often want to focus on that side of me," Lissie says, "But it wasn't like we were all sitting on the porch having a hootenanny writing the album; I grew up listening to gangsta rap just like millions of other American teenagers. There are many sounds and experiences that have influenced and inspired my music."
Lissie was always the musical one of her family. Inspired a little by her Grandfather, a former international barbershop quartet champion, she would sing along at her Lutheran church but was never a choir girl, then auditioned for the local dinner theatre production and at the age of nine scored the lead in an 80-date production of Annie. "I was always humming," she says, "making up these little songs and melodies, writing these poems and putting them to music. I know if I'm I feeling bummed out just the vibration of singing is kind of soothing to me."

Tracklisting:
01. Wedding Bells (04:24)
02. Worried About (04:16)
03. Here Before (06:22)
04. When I'm Alone (05:02)
05. Bully (05:25)
06. Loosen The Knot (05:00)
07. Record Collector (03:27)
08. Cuckoo (05:48)
09. Everywhere I Go (05:20)
10. In Sleep (05:29)
11. Little Lovin' (05:56)
12. Oh Mississippi (04:23)
13. Pursuit Of Happiness (06:38)

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 1xCD
Genre: Folk Rock, Country, Americana
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 2010
Speelduur: 67 minuten
Cover: Front is in de RARs verwerkt