Larry Norman, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Rich Mullins, Peter, Paul and Mary, Chris Rice
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James Taylor, Larry Norman, Sarah Groves, Joni Mitchell, Chris Rice, but mostly herself...
--------'Life on Earth' review by Larry Norman----------
Lisa Weyerhaeuser is not a teenager, but she is full of life. I've known this girl for many years, and she is totally honest. In fact, her music, like her lacks artifice and guile. So this music is as pure in motive as you will hear in in today's Christian music scene.
I don't really know how to review this album. It is so simple and trusting by not clothing itself in defensive hip-ness and ambition that I feel like the album is actually reviewing me. What kind of person am I?
And I believe when you listen to this music, it will make subject your inner heart to the raw truths that it confesses to. Will you be offended by Lisa Weyerhaeuser's optimism? Will you find yourself regretting some of the things in you that have changed so much since your initial conversion? Or will you simply disregard this CD and move on to your next life-changing tattoo and exotic piercing?
"Into your World" is exactly what I am talking about. This song has the kind of storyline that makes a girl stop, motionless, and investigate her heart.
"Your Love is Greater" is joyful without morphing into praise music. "Somedays" is a charming song, lyrically, and is seeringly, openhandedly forthright. "The Compass" makes me wish for a childhood I never had.
I think Lisa's contribution is that she is a real woman and a real Christian. She's not a rock & roll girl with a coarse indifference. She has an open heart that hasn't been locked shut by her familiarity with the "ccm" scene. In fact, she has been a servant of other artists. She has run coffeehouses and helped friends make contact with concert promoters until she could be mistaken for a booking agent. She loves her children, serves at her church and is kind and patient with the different kinds of people who enter her world.
And that's what I think of Lisa's music and her newest CD. It has not bought in to the pop culture "edge". It lacks any connection to music that might be called "commercial". Lisa released an album years ago that was far too ahead of it's time, and there is nothing as unforgiving as being ahead of your time. 'Life on Earth' has the same problem- not because it is musically out of place but because Lisa's music simply declares the things that are good and pure and true, a place where I wish all contemporary Christian music would reside. ----------------------------------------------------
Lisa Weyerhaeuser combines a reflective musical spirit with a deep love of God to forge a fresh and original style. Her music is an outgrowth of her Christian walk and her life experiences. Her highly anticipated new CD, Life on Earth, expresses her thoughts on many subjects, from contemporary praise ("Your Love is Greater", "Seek and Find") to simple truths of reaching out to the overlooked in our society (Into Your World"). Each selection proclaims the fundamental truths of Christ's redemption impacting our fallen world.
Lisa began her musical sojourn with the release of her first recording, Close to Home, and toured as a solo artist at Churches, Coffeehouses and Bible camps throughout the Midwest and eventually in Europe. Her second project, Caught in Time, was engineered by Christian Music legend, Larry Norman. Most recently, the Lisa Weyerhaeuser Band has performed at the Cornerstone festival, Lifest, the Joyful Noise Music Festival, Fisherman's Fest, Rocketown, Cup of Joy, and has shared the stage with a variety of artists including Phil Keaggy, Cheri Keaggy, Larry Norman, Tammy Trent, Whitecross and Glenn Kaiser.
In her concerts, Lisa draws on her experience as a conference speaker, Christian counselor, college professor, pastor's wife, and mother of three boys to tie her songs to real-life struggles and triumphs for her audience. Lisa shares her songs in an honest Americana style of acoustic alternative folk music.
Lisa and her husband Dan, the senior pastor of Lakeland Evangelical Free Church live with their growing family in Gurnee, Illinois.
I’ve been a music journalist for more than 10 years. Over the years, many artists and managers have asked me what the best way to break into the European music market is.
Here are some things you can do:
Publish artist press releases, news, and tour dates to the CountryHome Forum on MySpace, http://groups.myspace.com/CountryHomeMagazine , CountryHome Forum is part of CountryHome, http://www.CountryHome.de , Germany's Premier Country Music Online Magazine. Everything you publish to the CountryHome Forum will be published in my weekly Newsletter which has over 80,000 readers.
Send me CDs and DVDs for review and set up an artist interview with me. All reviews and interviews will be submitted to the magazines I'm writing for. More information for which magazines I'm writing can be found at http://www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Upload artist videos to http://www.MyVideo.de and http://www.ClipFish.de . Both websites are like http://www.YouTube.com and uploading videos is free. The websites are completely in German. If you don’t speak German and need assistance, I will help you open an account and upload a video for 25 Euro. Each additional video upload for the same artist name and at the same video website is 10 Euro.
If you have more questions about the European music market or about any of the information I send to you today, please contact me at Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de too.
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany
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Hiya! Check out my latest efforts on MySpace Player and also –at higher sound quality (320kps) on the “Soundlick” player in my “Blog” section. Most are demos but I will be putting up my previous CD release for free soon.
Hit me up for possible musical collaborations –or feel free to leave comments about your own projects etc.
Today I would like to let you know about two print magazines in Germany I'm writing for.
"Living Line Dance", reporting about line dance and country music, and "Folk Magazine", reporting about folk and country music. The magazines are high respected in Europe. They offer you a good chance to publicize yourself in Europe and Germany.
For more information, please contact me at MySpace or send email to Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de with the headline "Advertise at Living Line Dance and Folk Magazine".
Today I like to inform you, that you can read and watch interviews with your favorit country stars in Enlgish, German and French at http://www.CountryHome.de/Interviews .
Warm regards
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
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