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
You might also like my new book, "Pillow Talk" an exploration of the human comedy in erotic haiku and gestural drawings in graphite, the latter by noted artist Gabrielle Senza. Pillow Talk is available through gspotpress. com
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!
Thanks for the add! GUD (pronounced "good") is a print/pdf magazine of 200 pages of genre and literary fiction, poetry, and a splash of art. :) See our profile for information on reviews, freebies, and submission guidelines!
Hey Holly, I made a grid poem in lieu of a reaction paper for class and would love to send it to you! I scanned it so is there an email I could send an attachment to? - Mallory
