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That roots rocker from Fish Camp, California, Lisa O’Kane, is back with her latest album, It Don’t Hurt.
O’Kane has consistently turned in quality work...
All About Country
Americana/Roots artist Lisa O’Kane explores the "dark end of the street" on her most intimate album to date,
IT DON’T HURT...
South Will Rise Again
Lisa O’Kane has performed at last year’s SWRA Festival and today something changed...
Magnus Eriksson/Rootsy
"It Don’t Hurt" is an all together complete record in the shadowland where country meets the female
singer/songwriter tradition...
Dan Wilkinson
Mixed bag from huge voiced country diva. Lisa O’Kane is a throw back to the good old days of country
music...
Timo Kangas
Country singer Lisa O’Kane has a very impressive "gang" of LA-musicians behind her...
When Joni Mitchell sang, "I've looked at life from both sides now," she could have been singing about Lisa O'Kane. A
mountain girl all grown up and thriving in the city, a dedicated single mom with an exploding international recording
career, a world-class vocalist and a singer/songwriter of uncommon depth and integrity, O'Kane shares Mitchell's
knack for squeezing every drop of emotion out of every song she writes and anything she sings.
After two critically acclaimed releases, three triumphant tours of Europe and five U.K. tours, the Los Angeles-based
artist has launched her new CD IT DON’T HURT. The project, which will
captivate audiences at home as well as abroad, delivers songs that illuminate the many sides of a multi-dimensional
artist whose time has come.
"I'm excited about this record," O'Kane says. "I've really grown as a songwriter and as an artist. This album is very
personal … it reflects the many changes in my life over the past two years.
O'Kane has come a long way from Fish Camp, California, the tiny town in Yosemite National Forest where she was
raised. "Fish Camp, population 36!" she laughs. "With my brother and sister, there were three of us, and we were
the only kids in town. There was a Chevron station, there was the Silver Tip lodge where I worked as a waitress
during the summer, there was a general store, there was a post office where my mother was the postmistress …
and there was a pond."
Soaking up the sounds from the "little black radio" on top of her mom's refrigerator, Lisa was soon displaying a
talent unfamiliar to her family members. "There was really no one musical in my family, but I was always a musical
kid," she says. "But my grandfather did play violin, so I started taking violin lessons in the fourth grade. My mother
and father scraped up $150 to buy me an upright piano, which I still have.”
With no high school in town, O'Kane left home at 13 to attend high school in nearby Fresno, continuing with her
music and rising to Concert Mistress of Fresno's Junior Philharmonic. At 16, Lisa’s natural vocal skills earned her a
spot with the California Girls’ Choir and her first venture overseas.
"I was very serious back then," O'Kane says. "I thought of myself as a geek because I was into music and theater.
I always did Barbra Streisand songs because she was my idol. She and Emmylou Harris … don't ask, because they
are so different."
With every song on IT DON’T HURT, Lisa effortlessly reconciles those disparate influences and carves out her own
stylistic corner of the Americana genre in the process. Roots-driven, self-penned songs like rollicking album-opener
"Ain't Done Nothin" (featuring some hot fretwork from Telecaster deity Albert Lee) and the bluesy "Pay For My Sins"
sound right at home next to the full-on, soaring balladry of songs like "Give Me This Night" and "Remember This."
Every track was carefully chosen to reflect the events going on in O'kane's life. “It took me months and hundreds
of songs to finally pare down to these 11 songs, three of which are mine.” One album highlight, "Give Me This
Night," was an unsolicited pitch from an unexpected source. "The songwriters are Ken Hirsch and Rosie Casey. Ken
has had cuts from Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, people like that," O'Kane says, "I Googled him and
I'm thinking, He's got cuts with all these famous people. Why is he pitching this song to me? So I called him up, and
he said, It's because I think you can do the job.’” While her “‘day-job” days are behind her, Lisa did spend years
balancing work, kids and a home before returning to her music and rediscovering her artistry. Of course, her
creative epiphany came in an unlikely place and completely by surprise.
"It was my birthday," O'Kane recalls. "I went out with several of my girlfriends for dinner and we ended up at a local
Irish Pub called Irelands 32. There was a great band playing that night - The Twilight Lords. My girlfriends were
prodding me to sing, and I got up and sang Chain of Fools, Fleetwood Mac's and Dreams … and I kicked butt!"
A year later, O'Kane met producer/guitarist Edward Tree, who coaxed her into the studio for the sessions that
would grow into her 2002 debut, AM I TOO BLUE. "Ed is my key guy," she says. "He is the integral part of
everything I know about making an album. Through his influence and guidance, Ed has helped me become the artist
I am today."
AM I TOO BLUE, which featured two O'Kane-penned songs, garnered an immediate overseas response with
chart-topping singles in several countries and paved the way for the singer’s first solo European tour. "My first tour
was Holland, France and Spain," she says. "I had some really great airplay, so it was the DJs who brought me over.
The fans have been fabulous, and that's why I keep going back."
Lisa’s sophomore release, PEACE OF MIND, was released in 2004 and showcased the singer's growth as a
songwriter. The album featured five of her compositions, and two tracks were subsequently included on a CBS-TV
"Movie of the Week" and on American Movie Classics’ Clint Eastwood ‘Make My Saturday’ movie marathon. PEACE
OF MIND’s positive critical reception went a long way in establishing O'Kane in the growing Americana genre.
On the domestic front, she is doing what she does best – write,
perform and record great songs. The creative team she assembled for the new album speaks volumes about
O'Kane's musical sensibilities and her growing profile as an artist. Veteran keyboardist Skip Edwards (Dwight
Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, Jim Lauderdale), Yoakam/Lucinda Williams bassist Taras Prodaniuk, Emmy Award-winning
composer Ernest Troost, former Linda Ronstadt sidekick/Bryndle member Kenny Edwards, and the aformentioned Lee
are just a few of the characters bringing Lisa’s real-life musical tales to life. Kenny Edwards, whose "Misery and
Happiness" provides another of the album's high points, and teams up with O'Kane on tour.
From the start, Lisa O'Kane has built her career the old-fashioned way, all by herself, one song, one gig, one radio
station, one inspiration at a time. And it shows. Every song on IT DON’T HURT reflects another side of the artist,
another piece of her soul.
This online showcase is dedicated to winners
of the Great American Song Contest and all the
deserving songwriters in the world waiting to be
discovered!
"Fadin' Away" by Lisa O'Kane & Barry O'Brien
(Studio City CA)
My song "Ain't Done Nothin" was one of the winners for the Indie International songwriting contest.
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Please click onto the Country Home banner below to read an Interview with Lisa O’Kane 2007.
Ciao,Lisa Thank you for the add and the friendship. you are very good, I like your stupendous music a lot, Band, and stupendous voice. compliments ..really. you are one of my prefeitis, I feel great admiration for you, be really one whom is worth rather a lot! I hope to listen soon to you, in italy .. talk to you soon, and all of my best wishes to always listen to your good music all the best.. from italy.. and good life.. every day neal
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Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
Hello everyone, This is Shawn's cousin Susie. Sadly, he asked me to communicate to his top 40 friends on his and Chris' page that Chris passed away 4 weeks ago today at the age of 34. As all of you know from their story which aired on Intervention on A&E, Chris fought against his addiction to alcohol for many years, but in the end, he decided to end his life and lifelong struggle. Shawn, along with both sides of families and friends are devastated, but most of all, Shawn is because he found him. Please pray for him, he is taking it very hard. He also asked me to convey that you honor Chris and his life by TELLING his story. Tell everyone you know to view their page so that they can see what an amazing couple they were and so that this doesnt have to happen to anyone else...ADDICTION DOES KILL! Honor Chris by saying something on your page or theirs. Since the services, we have received thousands of messages from people all over the world that shared different ways that thier story on Intervention on A&E touched or changed their lives. Again, please pray for Shawn and all of us. This is a very tragic and painful loss to many. Sincerely, Shawn and Chris' Families and Friends
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