Elizabeth Marlowe has been called a lot of things in her life, but "typical" is not one of them. A graduate of UGA Law School, she became part of the Athens, Georgia music scene as an entertainment lawyer for both the unsigned and the famous. Elizabeth's first trips to Nashville were in support of her songwriter clients, but as she played her own songs for the publishers she connected with and the feedback grew more and more positive, she opted to focus more on writing and less on lawyering.
Elizabeth grew up in the suburbs in NY, the daughter of a professional jazz trumpeter and a nurse. She was plucked like a little green apple from her cozy suburban life and transplanted in Hollywood, FL at the age of 10. The surgery was not a complete success. The beach was nice but the schools were rough, and Elizabeth turned to the guitar to work out her angst. Her first guitar was an Epiphone acoustic, which she loved and wrote her first song on. The guitar was tragically smashed by the stoned ass of a classmate in the 10th grade. She never got over it.
Elizabeth got a nice Alvarez to aid in her recovery from the trauma, then a vintage Strat, and she now has a full-blown guitar addiction. Shas been playing and writing songs for most of her life now, and she's always evolving. She has fronted an all-girl rock band, played bass (badly) in a jazz ensemble, and then spent some time trying to find her own musical voice. She fell in love with country music when she discovered Patty Loveless, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Trisha Yearwood. The last few years have brought success in the way of song contest wins and some independent cuts. She has co-written with some of the finest staff writers in Nashville, as well as some of the best unsigned writers in the world!
Elizabeth's song "What If I Can't" was the winner of the CMT Listener's Choice Award in last year's CMT/NSAI Song Contest. She lives with her son Jackson, an up and coming guitar god, along with their merry band of crotch-sniffing hounds Penny, Piglet and Butchie.
