So far, though, it’s been good.”Ī dusky confluence of Fleetwood Mac and Carole King, Lissie’s music feels like a perfectly preserved artifact from ‘70s Los Angeles. You have to get a lot of people to go along with the plan. I think maybe that’s what is making the labels their money nowadays. There are other artists out there doing well and showing it’s okay to trust musicians to do their own thing. In the current environment, this strategy of building an audience through word-of-mouth graft feels like a throwback to a more straightforward age. Signed to Columbia Records, she has been given the time and space to grow at her own pace, with the emphasis as much on cultivating her live fanbase as on shifting units. I thought it would have been a bit rude.”Īt a time when the music industry is desperately flailing around in search of the next big thing Lissie is something of an anomaly. When it came to it though, I couldn’t ask him. “I wanted to tip-toe around the idea of him directing a video for me. Sensing an opportunity, Lissie tweeted Lynch back and they arranged to speak on the phone. It is a huge compliment and gives me a lot of credibility.” He’s so quirky and cool and what he does is so complex. It is more flattering to hear him say that than it would be to hear another celebrity or famous person. ![]() “It’s not merely that he’s a celebrity - he’s a really revolutionary artist,” she says. It started when the Blue Velvet/Twin Peaks director tweeted that Lissie’s debut album Catching A Tiger was “head and shoulders above” anything else he’d listened to this year. Of all the A-lister run-ins this wispy voiced singer has had, none is more treasured than her encounter with David Lynch, no matter that it mostly took place in cyberspace. As soon as the tour ended I went back to the grindstone of trying to be discovered.” On the other hand, it didn’t change my life. Don’t get me wrong - it was a cool experience. People would come and see you and there would be no follow-through. The thing is, I didn’t have a CD to promote. “Of course it helped to get me before big audiences. “Maybe it was too soon for me,” she sighs. The only downside, from her perspective, was that she didn’t have an album out at the time. As shop windows go, it was a huge opportunity. ![]() Having stumbled upon her at an open mic night in Hollywood, the leather-jacketed rocker invited Lissie to tour the US with him. If you weren’t aware of who he was, you would never realised he was such an important person.”Įxerting a rather more direct bearing on her career was her friendship with Lenny Kravitz. He didn’t really know anybody there either. That’s how I ended up talking to John Frusciante at that party. “I wound up being invited to a few things after that. Not quite as strange, she acknowledges, as rubbing shoulders with Madge, Prince and Lionel Richie - to say nothing of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg - at a subsequent get-together. On the other hand, I have to say the whole thing was totally strange.” I showed up and it turned out to be this wedding. He didn’t even tell me where we were going. Anyway, one day he said he had a gig for me and asked that I learn some love songs. We’ve heard covers of “Songbird,” I think Eva Cassidy’s comes readily to mind, but there will never be a match for the original.So how did she ended up warbling as Demi and Ashton walked down the aisle? “I met this individual called Guy Oseary who ran Maverick Records. While we may have all thought that Stevie Nicks was the driving, writing force behind Fleetwood Mac’s greatest songs, it was, in fact, Christine McVie who outwrote every single member of the band. When Rumors came out in 1977, we all were swept away by “Dreams” and “Go Your Own Way,” but amidst those popular songs, there was this beautiful, heart-rending ballad, “Songbird,” sounding so ethereal, so plaintive that it touched the heart and echoed. Sometimes you get lucky, as I recently did, to see John Frusciante back with Red Hot Chili Peppers. Now! You may not have a chance in the future. ![]() This serves as advice to you: go and see the bands you love-now. There are bands that I always wanted to see with all of the original members, and now that time has passed. I never got to see Fleetwood Mac live, which I now regret. I did feel shock to learn of Christine McVie’s passing. The songs that made my life, perhaps even yours, better. I never took the time here lately to talk about the amazing artists we lost. Maybe we review all of those we lost, who were many. Maybe we look back on the old, feel nostalgia, or not.
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