Lisa with Danny Nova opening for DAVE MASON Nov. 8, 2006 @ The Baker Theater- Dover, NJ... pix by Julie Johnson
photo by Tony Ferrari
photo by Tony Ferrari
LISA SWARBRICK
Every once in awhile a singer/songwriter comes along being dragged kicking and screaming by their muse. Her inspiration is a force that casts Lisa neurotically back and forth from tech to muso. Her background is not in the spotlight, but behind the scenes. In the past nine years she has worked as a stage hand at the most popular music venues in Toronto with international touring artists, had a few great forays out on the road in the States, worked on and off as a sound engineer/music editor for studios in Toronto, and as a dialogue editor once nominated with her crew for best sound edit on a documentary at the Hot Docs 1998 festival. Five years ago her muse convinced her to move from Toronto to the New York City area where she found the inspiration to hone her expression and exorcise those demons!
While living in NYC, Lisa performed solo acoustic shows, played the blues at smoky late night jams, and played guitar with Ad Hoc Blues Band, Bluesquake, Bank Street Blues Band, Side of the Road, Number9Train, and Jersey rocker/Timmy Award Winner Danny Nova. See band section for websites.
Recently Lisa moved to Nashville, and is trying to make sense out of it all.
photo by Tony Ferrari STAGE HAND ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------"After years of setting up the sound rig and backline for every artist imaginable and seeing them perform, rather than getting cynical, I got inspired." Lisa would go home after working eighteen hour days on a gig for someone else, and play guitar. "It really helps the music fever being able to set up gear and sometimes play the guitar of a player that I admire." You can watch Lisa work on Gov't Mule's www.mule.net 2003 Deepest End concert DVD- a six hour concert in New Orleans with a multitude of huge players paying homage to Mule's late bass player Allen Woody. A great night of incredible music.
FREELANCE WRITER ------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Lisa has written for Hittin' The Note magazine, (where honest-to-goodness real in depth articles can be read covering the scope of rock'n'roll, blues, roots and the jam band scene). You'll love it if you haven't read a meaty beefy copy yet- go to the store and get one or visit www.hittinthenote.com The last issue for 2005 has a cover story of Susan Tedeschi that Lisa wrote. Her new album is wonderful, but you must see her live.
TOP TEN FAVORITE SONGS (ok Twenty)
So friends were sitting around and I just kept listing them off, so I wrote 'em down to share... in no particular order, of course!
Drift Away- Dobie Gray
Evenin’- T-Bone Walker
Stardust- Hoagy Carmichael (sweetest Nat King Cole version)
Simple Song- Lyle Lovett
Working Class Hero- John Lennon
I Want To Take You Higher- Sly & The Family Stone
Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby- Louis Jordan
Indian Head Penny- Guy Clark
Poems, Prayers & Promises- John Denver
Need Your Love So Bad- Little Willie John (sweetest Irma Thomas version)
Big River- Johnny Cash
All Your Love- Otis Rush
All Your Love- Magic Sam
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry- Hank Williams
Ramble On- Led Zeppelin
Little Wing- Jimi Hendrix
Bye Bye Blackbird- Joe Cocker
Blue Moon of Kentucky- Bill Monroe (one of my favorite songs as a kid, by Elvis)
Think Of Me- Little Milton
Amazing Grace
photo by Tony Ferrari www.DANNYNOVA.com
NUMBER9TRAIN Number9Train
band photo by Tony Ferrari Lisa and Number9Train performing Soul of a Man @ Kenny's Castaways, NYC April 2007
Dennis Moriarty on harp Soul Of A Man
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