Carving Canyons

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Her EP, Why You Runnin', produced by Bill Reynolds of Band of Horses, was released in November 2009 on Fat Possum. [13] [14] One of the songs, "Oh Mississippi" was co-written with Ed Harcourt, whom she met through a mutual friend. [15] The EP was listed amongst Paste magazine's "Eight Most Auspicious Musical Debuts of 2009". [16] L: I think, just like anything, muscle memory, a decade of kind of being on the go non-stop, you kinda get used to that lifestyle, and the plane rides, and the jetlag, and the days of adjustment to get into the swing of things when you go overseas, and you’re immediately hittin’ the ground runnin’. Those were things that I was pretty in the habit of being able to do. And then I think, even just the last two years, being such a break, that even without touring I’m getting busy. I have a popcorn company and I have a store that I opened. I have my farm and my partner and my family and my friends, my music and my dog. Suddenly, with being busy it’s like, ‘How did I do this before?’ I’m just starting to learn what it’s like again to be on the go. So I think I have felt really excited, I’m really excited to be part of a team again. I love being part of a band. Being able to see my band again and play with them is gonna feel good. I love to be part of a team. I never played sports, really, in high school. It wasn’t ‘til I was an adult that I felt like I knew what it was to be on a team. So I missed that. I’m not drinking. I’m exercising, I’m eating really good food. I’m training as though I’m an athlete right now. Because I’m also turning 40 this year! I know that’s still young. My body doesn’t put up with the things it did when I was 25, and I started doing all this stuff, so I’m a little nervous! But I’m also excited. L: Yeah, I think that happened very loosely and naturally, which I loved. I didn’t have to make a big to-do, I was just in Nashville, and my producer [Curt Schneider] had come from LA to get some vocals. I always feel like I sing better in Nashville, because in LA it’s dry, so my voice is always a little pinched. But then I come to Nashville, and it was all humid – the humidity is good for my vocal cords – so I was just singin’ my butt off and was able to just call up Kate and Sarah and Bre Kennedy and Madi and Natalie and be like, ‘Hey, what are you doing over the next two days – can you pop into the studio. No pressure.’ And everybody just rolled through and it was awesome! I really gave them freedom to ‘sing what you feel – I have a few ideas, but I’d just love for you to take it away.’ It adds such a dimension and a texture. I’m just so glad that that was able to work out, because it just adds more life and more perspective. It’s a group effort.

Albums [ edit ] Studio albums [ edit ] List of studio albums, with selected chart positions and certifications VH1 Webtools*delimiter*promotions*delimiter*Mob Wives: Lissie". Takeout.vh1.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03 . Retrieved 2015-12-13. Lissie Takes Her California Farewell to London on 'Live at Union Chapel' Album: Exclusive First Listen". billboard.com . Retrieved 18 November 2016. AH: One thing that stood out on that song for me was the harmonies, which were fantastic. It sounds like something that would really work well on country radio. Is there any thought toward pushing it in that direction? AH: Yes! I get overwhelmed sometimes about how much I want to listen to something new, and I just don’t get the chance sometimes. I just don’t have the physical time.L: Yeah, and I never want to throw any of my male co-writers under the bus, because we all have our strengths, and you can’t generalize. But I do think that, for as much as I felt like a lot of these songs are about me, and they’re very specific, and they’re about MY life – some of the women I wrote with, they had an equally emotional life experience, that they were really their own perspective to the song, too. And that ended up becoming extra-healing, because sometimes when you go through hard stuff, you feel like, ‘Oh, I’m so alone in this. No one’s ever felt this sad.’ Well, the thing is, everyone’s gone through something, and it’s so universal. Once the song comes out the other side, it belongs to the listener, Writing with people, it was also healing to be like, ‘Oh, yeah, YOU felt this way. YOU felt betrayed. You felt lost. You felt whatever these feelings are.’ It was helpful to remember that this is just a part of life – we all go through it. We’ve all been through it.

It is a perfect ending to the journey Carving Canyons has taken us on. From heartbreak and darkness, Lissie has found self-acceptance and personal balance but she has created her finest album.

Indie-folk singer Lissie has never rushed her albums. Her fifth proper studio release, Carving Canyons, uses that reflection to good effect. The album’s context – the loneliness at the center of the pandemic – feels almost behind the times (partly because of the surfeit of covid-based releases over the past few years). Still, Lissie primarily uses the setting to look at the fallout from a breakup that occurred early in the era. The time given to writing and recording Carving Canyons allowed Lissie full time to process, writing lyrics that offer transparency without frantic confessing, eventually leading to a possible way out of the crisis. a b "Barenaked Ladies, Submarines Do Campfire Songs for "Simple Life" ". Artist Direct. 6 July 2007 . Retrieved 27 June 2010. a b c d e f g h "Lissie". ctnmusic.com. 22 December 2008. Archived from the original on 26 February 2010 . Retrieved 29 May 2010. Discography Lissie". Greek Charts. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24 . Retrieved 2010-07-10.

L: Yeah and, I mean, talk about working with a total legend – she’s written some of the best songs ever! That was a huge honor. We again have a lot of friends of friends and kinda knew each other, but were connected through our teams to do a write. And we ended up writing over FaceTime, because it was during COVID, and it was right before Thanksgiving, and everyone was getting COVID. So November 2020 I was in Nashville, but we ended up just writing via FaceTime. With that song, Natalie, since she’s just an incredible crafter of songs, really had brought a title and a shape with her to the session, so I was able to sort of fill in the blanks alongside her via FaceTime to make the story work for me. To tell a side of my story which is, ultimately, you can’t make people love you, you have to love yourself, and you have to find the people that will. Rose, Greg (25 May 2010). "Lissie and Ellie Goulding duet at Great Escape". Virgin Records. Archived from the original on 20 June 2010 . Retrieved 29 May 2010. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Epic Scrap Metal Sessions Part 10: Lissie". bigang.no/home. Archived from the original on 25 February 2016 . Retrieved 19 February 2016. Her cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Go Your Own Way' found prominence in early 2012, when it was used in a Twinings advert and in the film Safe Haven. The song was also used as a theme for the BBC Radio 4 reading of Iain Banks's Stonemouth, read by David Tennant. The song was also featured in the closing moments of the first-season finale for "Good Behavior" in 2017. [24]

Petro, Cristopher. "SPOTLIGHT: Lissie Maurus". Performer Magazine . Retrieved 28 May 2010. [ permanent dead link] AH: You probably have a communication shorthand between you where you don’t have to work so hard to explain an idea, it’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, I get it!” a b c d Schultz, Paul (1 October 2008). "Music Review: Lissie, "Lissie" EP". The Trades. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012 . Retrieved 27 June 2010. So she had ‘Otts’ Pops’ and I had ‘Indie Pop.’ We realized—this is early COVID—‘What are we gonna do this summer and winter? We don't know what to do.’ So we decided, ‘Let's just do it.’ There is this commercial kitchen that let us make it. And so we handmake pop-music-inspired popcorn flavors. It's been fun. It was a good pandemic project.” a b c d "Lissie Interview". PopCultureMadness. 11 February 2008. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012.

L: It could sound insensitive to say that anything good came from COVID, because obviously a lot of people died, and it was unbelievable – still, I can’t believe we’ve all been through this really intense thing. We’re collectively traumatized. But, yeah, I think, for a lot of people, there was a sort of slowing down that, for me, I haven’t done in over a decade. I just kind of have to sit with my feelings and confront myself and sort of try and grow and have self-awareness and emotional intelligence and practice self-care and do all of these things I’ve neglected for so long. It was kinda hard, but once I was able to sort of get the hang of it, I’m kind of grateful for having so much time to just be, and be in my home and be with my dog and to eventually be around more for my family and friends. I actually ended up meeting a new person who I’ve been dating for over a year who’s amazing, and I really think, had there not been this downtime, we probably wouldn’t have been able to have a relationship, because it’s hard to date someone who’s never home! AH: Yeah, I’ll get myself into those ruts, too, but one there’s one thing you want to hear, that’s all that’ll work for ya.L: No, Since I put out [2010’s] Catching a Tiger, my first big release – I’d written a lot of songs prior, but my proper first album – I’ve always co-written. In part because songwriters aren’t getting enough love right now – not only recognition, but the industry really doesn’t compensate them properly – I felt even more compelled to shine a light on the fact that I couldn’t really write these songs alone. All the lyrics are true to me, and I’m making these songs about my life. But I kinda joke, I don’t write songs alone anymore because I’ll start something, then I’ll go clean my kitchen, or I’ll go to the grocery store – I’ve turned into such a procrastinator that I’ve felt like if I’m really going to do this and I’m gonna write this song and see it through to the end and be able to be objective about it…some of the songs on the album I mostly wrote by myself, but I always like to bring in someone that I trust to bounce some ideas, because it’s sometimes hard to see things objectively when you’re just in it by yourself. I’ve always co-written a lot but, particularly on this record, because I’ve been in the game and I’ve made friends, I was really able to write with a lot of friends and sort of navigate setting up writing – a lot on Zoom and FaceTime – just through relationships that I had, “Hey, you wanna write a song on FaceTime today?” It was surprisingly effective, and really worked out! And not even on purpose, but there was just a ton of women who I wrote with on this record, and I did find there was something much more somehow efficient about that, whether that’s a coincidence or not. I felt like I was writing with a lot of my women friends, and we’re just bustin’ out the tunes. It felt really good.