Voice and all music by Lisa B. Burns, Lyrics by Holly Anderson, Bass by Sal Maida
Influences
Loretta Lynn, Sappho, June Carter Cash, Virginia Woolf, Ronnettes, Gretel Ehrlich, Anne Carson, Joseph Mitchell
Sounds Like
sex, a juicy pear, a Shaker chair, a dun-colored bird, cool damp sand, Siouxsie singing a sea shanty, barn swallows, bee balm and poppies, kidskin gloves
'Lisa sings with a touching resonance centered round her gritty Americana voice.'
Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music)
'Nimbly worded, charmingly executed, and completely bereft of Family Values. As always.' Jeff Hunt (Table of the Elements + Radium record labels)
Holly is included in '50 Rock Lyricists with Significant Output 1989-2004 Who More or Less Generally Fail to Suck Massive Ass' (Franklin Bruno)
Re: 'Up is Up But So Is Down' New York's Downtown Literary Scene 1974-1992
NYU Press Oct.2006 ...'But these writers aren't just letting it blurt. There's a formal elegance and inventiveness to many works, epitomized by Holly Anderson's marvelously concrete 'Color Stories'...Village Voice Oct.2006. ...'There are surprises,too-like Holly Anderson, who writes haiku-like prose poems of delicate lyricism trapped in crossword grids. Each letter is
separated from the others as if imprisoned, evoking both the density and the loneliness of the city,and challenging the reader to make "sense" of the lapidary inscriptions.
New York Times Book Review Nov.2006
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will be back in the studio on Easter Sunday. Last recordings and all the missing mixes. Mastering will be done at Sterling Sound in NYC mid April, but I can't be there. Hugs and kisses, and I'll talk to you soon.
Bummer you can't make it to Boston on Saturday. We'll have fun up here at February's show on Saturday at Church. Jonathan Kane feature airing Friday at 3 p.m. on WZBC. 90.3 FM in Boston and wzbc.org anywhere in the world wide web! Check it out!
