I’ve always admired those who can and have dedicated themselves to the well being of these creatures who cannot speak up for themselves. I have a special place in my heart for all animals as they rely on us whether domestically or in the wild.

When Melissa Martin (http://www.facebook.com/bmused.inc) asked me if I would be a part of Pets Alive’s www.austinpetsalive.org “SweetBarks”, I was pleased to say “absolutely”!

I hope you will join us this Saturday February 11th, at Noon on the corner of S. Congress & Gibson. Look for the little silver bullet trailer.

I play solo 12:30-2:20pm.

KP and The Boom Boom play at  2:30pm! http://www.facebook.com/kpandtheboomboom

Love and Happiness! ( in the lyrics of the fabulous Al Green!)

If you haven’t been to Zed’s before, it is off of I-35 at the Parmer exit. The food is delicious, the outside deck is huge, and the atmosphere is quite lovely. Plus, a new song! That’s all I’m saying. Oh, and no cover.

I’ll be in the bar or outside depending on the weather and the rain factor. Come early it gets busy in the bar, plus the Happy Hour menu is bound to make you grin if not damn happy

xo

Poor Chicago Mary….We had shown up early to The House of Blues to grab some dinner. We were upstairs finishing up when we heard the band start to warm up on the stage downstairs. Eager to get a good table below, we grabbed our things and began briskly toward the stairs. Richard Pryor was also upstairs having dinner with his family and friends. We had to walk right by him, carefully. You see his health was not good and he was in an electric scooter and was very close to the railing. Very gingerly we turned sideways and scooted by, only Chicago was wearing overalls. As she tried to slip by not disrupting his dinner, a handlebar inadvertently slipped inside the lower part of the bib of her overalls spinning Mr. Pryor around nose to nose with the very still, and incredibly red faced Chicago Mary. Now, I know the incident lacked any comical relief, but the look on poor Mary’s face was apparently very funny to the three of us because we were forced to abandon our friend. The chuckles that were starting to erupt we felt were quite rude and uncalled for, but still we couldn’t help ourselves.

The Show! – Etta howled, thrusted, pet herself and sang from the depths of her bigger than life Soul!. I saw her two more times before she departed this world. I’ve read that she was difficult to categorize because she crooned R&B, belted out Rock n’ Roll, and sang ( I mean SANG..did ya hear me?) the Blues. To that I say “amen”! Let music be music. Does it matter that an industry was sometimes confused on where to put her or what to do with her? Hell no. What mattered is that she reached in to the hearts of people and let them feel, breathe, cry, she empowered us and all around just gave us a reason to have a good time! There’s no such thing as too much of a good thing. There is an abundance of so much good, it’s up to us believe Thank you Etta “Miss Peaches” James! May we continue to make you proud. Sweet dreams!

I am so proud of what Mary Harsh, Russ Scanlon, Johnny Radelat, Chris Trafton (plus subs Vinnie Ambrosonie and John Duran) have accomplished. I moved to Austin just under 3 years ago. The band played its first show on October 20th, 2010 at The Carousel Lounge. We quickly became busy and played all around Austin, Houston, Dallas, Beaumont, etc. This was a hard decision to make, as I really enjoyed playing with them all. Unfortunately, the pace I was keeping left little time to do one of the things I love the most…write songs.

I have so much gratitude for the people who jumped in to pimp the mailing list (Marguerite Jones), sell CDs (Jennifer Stanaland, Sharon Hunt, Julie Gamboa, many of you have jumped in to move a CD or two), record the music live and in studio (John Harsh). I have been graced with some of the most beautiful friendships! You all have been so good to me, “and I thank you”.

For those of you that are wondering: the CD will get finished and released. All of you wonderful Kickstarter supporters, we will fulfill our promise to you. I cannot thank you enough for your faith in us!

We (the band) still care deeply about each other, and you never know when we may have opportunity to pop up on stage together.

I hope you all will continue to check in here on my website, and please come to some of my solo shows! I will have some regular stints at Rusty’s and Fion in Steiner Ranch. I hope you will also check in on some new tunes, and of course Mary, Russ, and the fabulous musicians who kept the music going with us.

It is with so much gratitude in my heart for all of you who came to the shows, spread the word about us, the bookers who booked us, and the venues who gave us a place to do our thang, that I embark on this new part of my of my journey. Without YOU, we could not have done any of it! I hope I may have the honor of your continued presence, and honor of playing music for YOU!

Love, peace, prosperity and all our dreams come true!

xo-Lisa Marshall

If you’re in Beaumont, please come by- Sunday Jan. 15th at The Gig in Beaumont, TX. Please check here for tickets www.thegigbeaumont.com  240 Crockett Street  Beaumont, TX 777012335 (409) 833-9113

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I know all you fine folks in Austin have always supported Lavelle White. I don’t know if you realize some of the people in past years who have been involved in this wonderful event such as Carolyn Wonderland, Ruthie Foster, T-Bird and the Breaks, and of course the most generous supporter I know of Lavelle White, and possibly one of the most generous people in Texas, is the one and only MARCIA BALL.

This Year’s Lineup is a new batch of rising stars:
Mr. Reed Turner and his fine band go on at 7:00 SHARP
From Australia, the tall and beautiful Jackie Bristow and her fine band on at 8:30
The one and only Miss Lavelle White goes on at 10:00
Bringing in the late show is the hottest young singer we’ve seen in years, Lisa Marshall. The boys in my office think she’s the next big thing–her band is off the charts. She is also at the Saxon Pub this Saturday the 10th at midnight, . If you don’t believe me come by and see for yourself, and if you don’t like it we’ll give you your money back.
It seems like this year we’re the benefit capital of the world. We have never used the term Benefit with Lavelle’s name, I’m not even sure she knows that all the bands work for free, but they do. Lavelle gets every dime.

I cannot tell you how wonderful it will make you feel to stop by the Saxon Pub on Christmas Eve and palm her a C-note, she’ll probably try to give ya a kiss… and that’s an experience you won’t soon forget. If you don’t have a C-note, or even if you don’t want to pay a cover charge, just a gift will get you in for free! This is the perfect place for re-gifting!!

And bring your cameras–Lavelle loves posing for photographs and is sure to be dressed in her finest Christmas regalia…

Merry Christmas,
Ben, Tyler, Melody, Max, Joel and David

Thanks for everything!
As you all may know, the Saxon Pub does two fundraisers a year for Lavelle White. Her Birthday, July 3rd, and a Christmas Event. 100% of every event goes to Lavelle White. Some of Austin greatest musicians stop by with gifts and Christmas cards with checks in them and this allows this 83 year old Texas, blues treasure to make it through the year.

David Cotton

Here is the link to the latest Free Download :

November 18th, 2011. The day before our 1 year  anniversary, and my sweet thang took me to Houston to see the woman who continues to blow my mind every time I hear her sing. From standard jazz tunes, to gut punching Soul tunes she is untouchable.

She has so many recorded songs, I was so pleased to hear her do two songs her sister, Carolyn wrote: Angel, and Ain’t No Way, my favorite! I looked over at my gorgeous date with tears streaming down my face, and began to tell her what an exceptional piano player Ms. Franklin is. Stop the press…is she walking over toward that beautiful black baby grand in the middle of the stage? She sure is. Uh oh, low hum through the pa. Aretha Franklin is not pleased and none too amused. She demands the sound people get it together stating people paid too much money to have to sit through this poor sound. “I need some quality on this mic”, she says, all the while playing ‘Bridge over Troubled Water’ with pure grace. It took some time, but finally. She let’s loose, and the water works begin, again.

It seems to me that no matter what you believe in, artist like Aretha Franklin and their contribution to Soul music just makes me have faith in the good, and the positive. It’s uplifting and moves me to tears! So we may lose our way every once in a while, but we always have Soul music to help us back.

Ms. Franklin may your health continue to improve, your heart be filled with love, and please keep on keeping on, because we need you! With much love and respect for what you do, Lisa

Live from Antone’s! Stay tuned for the month of December’s shows. We’ll be releasing this CD of our live performance at Antone’s from this past Fall. That night was a bill consisting of The Coveters, and the fabulous Patrice Pike!

The CD- Yes, the one we’ve been working on in a studio, and we still are, is really coming along quite splendidly. Yes, a little slower than we would like, But like a fine wine, it’s bound to take a little time, right?

Holiday Cheer!- Let’s bring it on nice and thick. Why not feel good and happy? We would be honored to be a part of it. Just give us a holla, we’ll serve up some feel good jams and do it with a smile! email:mary.lisamarshallbooking@gmail.com or give us a call (512)788-2156      

Fri. Nov. 25th- at Frank in Nac!, 9pm. (2304 North St., Nacogdoches, TX.)- solo show

  Thur. Dec. 1st- Vino 100 in Round Rock  8pm.(I-35 at 45) ,- solo show

  Fri. Dec. 2nd- 121 Bar, 11pm.-full band!!

We’ve been recording away working toward sharing a new CD with you all. CD Release parties in the works. December may be the month. I had hoped for sooner, but Decemeber is a good month We just went in the studio to record a new song that most of you have not heard, and I am pleased to report it turned out very good!

Upcoming shows including HAAM Benefit day (helping keeping Austin musicians healthy with your support, so Thank You!) We’ve spread it out pretty good…Solo shows, and then the big guns this weekend! MOMO’s on Sat! (w/the stellar Cari Hutson!) and Houston. Please join us if you can. This is all we got the beginning of the month, aside from some Private Parties, so come out, come out whenever you can.

Fri. Oct. 7th- Monnalisa, 10pm (in the Hotel Sorrela, Houston City Centre) (w/ Chris Trafton on drums)
Sat. Oct. 8th- Momo’s, 9:30pm. (W.6th St., Austin- with Cari Hutson!) (with Vinnie Ambrosone on Drums)

Speaking of Private Parties….why not have some ‘feel good’, occasional ‘take you down’, somewhat amusing band play your party this Holiday, Bday, Dog Grooming Day…whatever causes you to celebrate.  Yes, I’m talking about us. Ok, Kool & the Gang does have some good tunes, but I’m pretty sure we drink a lot less. Mary and I are lightweights (Sorry, Mary…you are) Just email us!!  We can give you references..whatever you need!   mary.lmarshallbooking@gmail.com

We sure have enjoyed seeing your faces at the shows! Thank you so much for coming out, and the tequila It’s such a good life with all of you in it!

 Kickstarter folks and the curious- We’ve added a new song, and I have vocals to finish on one. We have keys next week. Percussion, and backing vocals coming in this week. I hope we will mix the songs by the end of this month. Duplication will take about 4 weeks. Thank you for your patience! We have many hats to wear in our business to keep the gigs going and letting people know about them.

Website…almost done! The new template will be up soon and I think it’s going to be badass! (if ya know what I mean:)

Off to see the wizard!

www.lisamarshallmusic.com

facebook.com/lisamarshallband

Thank you everyone who made our Kickstarter project successful!! Without your belief in the music and us we would not have this opportunity to complete the record. We are so excited to complete this, and share the songs with you and everyone!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lisamarshallband/lisa-marshall-band-makes-a-record

Please come join us at Luna this Fri. Aug. 19th, 9pm. (6740 San Pedro Ave, San Antonio) and Austin, we’ll be at One 2 One Bar (5th& Brazos) Sat. Aug. 20th, 11pm.

Check back here for some fun clips of the week

Love and Happiness!! -Lisa