Finally, after a 5 year break, Liz Mandeville is back on the Earwig Muisc Co label with a swingin' new CD out just in time for her show on the Front Porch Stage at the CHicago Blues Fest. RED TOP features 15 original songs with traditional 12 bars & funky soul numbers representing Liz's diverse musical influences & boundless good humor. It's Liz's 4th Earwig CD, it also showcases her first recorded guitar solos, on both acoustic & electric guitars. RED TOP continues Ms Liz's tradition of putting out great Chicago music, featuring some of the finest support players in town. Guitarists Mike Gibb, Michael Dotson, Mark Wydra & Luke Pytel are featured on different tunes. Rodney Brown leads a three man horn section on swing & soul tunes. Howlin' Wolf veteran, Eddie Shaw, lends his talent to two of the tracks, rockin out on Guilty of Rockin All Night & crying the blues on Stax-esque ballad, Hold Me. Look for it on I-tunes, Amazon & Earwig's sites.
Get Ready! The most wonderful blues band in Europe, Netherland's own BluesCrowns, is orchestrating Liz's return for a festival tour Spring 2008! Watch the calendar & web site for updates.
Big thanks go out to Daan Preevo & the Bluescrowns for bringing Liz Mandeville back to Europe for the 100% Pure Tour. The 13 date tour kicks off in Maastrich, the Netherlands & brings Liz to venues all over Holland & Belgium. Please check out the photo page for photos from the Supernatural Tour, Sept 07.
Liz Mandeville & Paris blues woman, Sophie Kay have been trying to confirm a Paris date. Venue problems may force Liz to take a Paris shopping break instead & spend all those Euros @ the Mono-Prix. Ms Liz will be touring L'Orangerie, drinking vin rouge & sketching rude waiters in the Bistro's along the Seinne. Please visit www.lizmandeville.com ART page to view past artisitc forays to France.
After almost a decade, Liz & the band will be returning to Alberta Canada to do a week-long stint at Edmonton's Blues on Whyte. As part of the Northwest Territory tour in July & August, Liz will be featuring songs from the new CD & a new version of the Blue Points with leggy keyboardist, Darlene Cain, a suprise rhythm section & the vocal & sax stylings of Rodney "HotRod" Brown.
A big Thank-you to Bob Cat from Lucky's in Cortland New York & to the amazing staff at Madam's Organ in DC. The band was inspired to break new musical ground by Madam's soundman, Walter, who mixed with grace & taste & played the phattest sax since Jr Walker!
Finally, thanks to Josey Rodrieguez for the way cool Strat & for the intensive world of guitar we lived all winter. Hey, Lil Roach Daddy, I've finished 50 Moves & I'm into the next book in the box...my hand is now stuck in "G"!
The word on the street is Mz Liz will be returning to FLA in Fall of '08 to set the blues scene on it's ear...
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NEW YEAR NEW NAME!!!
As of January 1, 2007, Liz Mandville Greeson will NOW be known professionally as LIZ MANDEVILLE! Successfully divorced for as long as she was married, Liz is shedding her excess baggage & moving into the New Year with a more streamlined moniker. To make the transition complete, Liz made a new promotional DVD with her most funky band, the Blue Points. She has launched a new web site ( please visit www.lizmandeville.com ) & is finishing her latest CD, RED TOP, for a 2008 release. All dates are posted both on this site & the official web site.
2006 was a full year for Liz. She spent most of the year as artist in residence at the Kingston Mines, along with the great John Primer, making it Chicago's hottest Monday night blues party. Put together a great new band with a fat, funky, groove oriented sound, featuring Chicago's multi-faceted saxy vibe man Rodney Brown. She wrote & recorded a new set of adult contemporary tracks at Palatines' Prime Cuts Studio. Learned to build web sites. Spent a week in the Carribean in March & two weeks sampling the good life in France in Sept. Became presenter for the Alliance Francaise Chicago's Monthly Cineseries. Played the Chicago Blues Fest with the Legendary Charlie Love & the Lost Treasures of the Blues Revue. Several other great festivals held good times & new friends, but the Journal Star (Central Illinois paper with the largest state circulation) featured a color photo of LIZ on it's FRONT PAGE at the Peoria Blues Fest! She was pictured singing her original traditional blues tune, ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD, which struck a resounding chord with festival attendees & newpaper folks. Late in the year Liz worked with Indie film-maker Ed DeGeorge, playing a feature role in his latest reel to be submitted to Speilburg's Dreamworks Co. Bon Chance, Ed!
Liz & the Blue Points wish all of you a happy, prosperous & peaceful 2007.
25 Things Miss Liz Has Done
25. Written & released her 4th Earwig Music Co. CD, RED TOP
24. Become a lead guitar player, thanks Josey
23.Become Chicago contruibuter to BIG CITY BLUES Mag
22.Played for one year every Monday night @ the Kingston Mines
21.Changed her Name to Liz Mandeville
1. 1st prize Winner for Novelty/Comedy, of the 2005 USA Songwriter Competitions for the song He Left It In His Other Pants
2. Voted in the top three Blues Singers in Chicago in 2005
3. Honorable Mention in the 2005 ISC Competitions Blues category for the composition Juice Head Man
4. June 3, 2005, Interview and performance for documentation in the Harold Washington Library Chicago Blues archives by Justin OBrien and the City of Chicago, Channel 23 TV.
5. Invited to participate in Mayor Richard M. Daleys historic Year of the Blues photograph taken January 18, 2004 commemorating blues artists of note in Chicago.
6. Oct 30, 2004, Lizs original work of dark fiction, The Ghost In The Attic published in the anthology SPOOKS, Twilight Tales Press
7. November 2004, Liz produced and released DVD Live From Chicago
8. January 2003 Lizs third album, Back In Love Again nominated Best Blues CD of the Year 2002 by the Chicago Music Awards
9. January 2003, Liz and the Blues Points tour Germany with David Honeyboy Edwards
10. November 2002 Liz is musical Guest of Honor at the World Horror Convention, her original work of dark fiction I Have A Theory About Ghosts published in the convention anthology.
11. January 2001, Lizs second album, Ready To Cheat nominated Best Blues CD of the Year 2000 by the Chicago Music Awards
12. July 2001, Liz and the Blues Points tour Germany with Robert Cray
13. Sang duet with Johnny Drummer on his 1999 Earwig CD Unleaded Blues
14. Two tracks released on the 1997 Blue Chicago CD Red Hot Mamas
15. June 1997 Liz appears on the Chicago Blues Fest Crossroads Stage with the Earwig Music Co Revue.
16. November 1996 Lizs first CD, Look At Me is released on the Earwig Music Co. Label & is named to the top ten releases of the year by Bill Wax, National Satalite Radio, Washington DC
17. September 1996 Liz earns a BA in Music @ Columbia College Chicago.
18. July 1996 Liz makes her professional recording debut on Aron Burtons Live From Buddy Guys Legends
19. June 1994, Liz appears on the Chicago Blues Fest Crossroads Stage with Aron Burtons Blues Revue
20. 1994-1999 house performer @ Blue Chicago on Clark
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