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- 02/26/13
  Feb. 2013 Lisa Marshall Vlog!
  What’s up Pussycat? (woh, woh..) You know I’ve heard tha…
- 01/23/13
  Half The Sky
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0 Feb. 2013 Lisa Marshall Vlog!

02/26/13
LIsa
· Lisa's Blog

What’s up Pussycat? (woh, woh..) You know I’ve heard that Tom Jones broke 2 microphones in the studio! Not confirmed, just what I heard. And this has to do with what? I have no idea Sometimes I have thoughts in my head and just need to share. Sometimes I need to share a free track from my latest CD ( you had to have seen it coming which, by the way, I have lowered the price. You can pay whatever you want for the download. Plus, my friend LeAnn Mueller did the photography and design for the CD. (Several of her photos are featured in Rolling Stone’s Yearbook Magazine!)

A new Video, and please be in it! “Hold Me’ is track 1 off the new CD. Join us the 3rd Tuesday of March (the 19th) at One-2-One Bar for the finale of the video!
(what’s the song about?…read on.. After some period of meditating, yoga and my regular walks in the fabulous Austin sun, I had a moment of calmness and clarity. I suppose a bit of a Spirit awakening. I had been messing around with the chords Bb & Eb (as matter of fact it was called the Bb/Eb song for a while). The words were happening separately in one of my writing books. I really didn’t think much of the song honestly. But then came the bridge..”people have called us no good, feared us and misunderstood..” and I felt as though I and to finish the song because I realized as a lesbian I had rejected most religions, because I felt they judged me. Here I was having a real spiritual moment, an awakening, and then I began to understand how personal it is. That really it’s okay to embrace the such calmness, such inner peace, and it is for everyone… “for our hope, for our joy, for our love”

Austin Outlaws! Fundraiser show for the ladies of Football!, Sunday March 3rd at Rusty’s, Doors 5p. I take the stage, 9p. Please come show support for this. Don’t make me go on a rant…. women should be making money just like men in professional sports. Ok, that’s part of it. Couldn’t help it…grin!

Full band! Every Tuesday in March! It’s been a minute. I’ve been working with some new peeps for a band project. We’re kicking off our live shows here in Austin, at One-2-One Bar (1509 S. Lamar) every Tuesday in March!, 8pm. (**except March 12th, 11pm showtime!)

Meet the band: Greg Amani Smith on Bass, Matt Danko on Drums, Nnedi Agbaroji on Backing vocals, Jack Edery on Guitar, and sometimes Nate Basinger on B3, and we’ll be adding another special guest soon!

SXSW- It’s go time. Got a few shows happening around town…
Tues. Mar. 12th- Outlander and Logo TV showcase at Rusty’s, 8:30-9p. (Rusty’s is leaving us at the end of March so come visit!)
Tues. Mar. 12th- One-2-One Bar, 11pm
Wed. Mar. 13th- The Hangout on Google+, 7:30p. The officially unofficial SXOnline show!
Sat. Mar. 16th -K1LL3R 2013 Party at Austin Java (barton Springs Rd.) 2-2:45p Full Band!

San Antonio!!!! I have missed you! Please come to the Luna CD Release Party, Friday March 22nd, 9:30pm!! You know how awesome this joint is; Crock pot cookin’, red velvety decor, feels like a hip juke joint.

A heart full of gratitude! I have been so blessed to play music for a living! Thank you all so much for your support at shows, purchasing the music, the words of encouragement, videos, photos! Thank you venue owners and bookers who book me to play the music. Thank you musicians who come play with me. Thank you Boo for your support and encouragement!!,
xo -Off the see the wizard..

0 Half The Sky

01/23/13
LIsa
· Lisa's Blog

I am very pleased and proud to be a part of this! Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide now 1/2 of select song sales are donated to@HALF- http://rvrb.fm/VKTvAd Just follow this link! And thank you!!

0 Just talking out loud, things and stuff Jan. 10, 2013

01/10/13
LIsa
· Lisa's Blog

The new year begins. The last few weeks of 2012, I challenged myself by trying to write a song a week. I got 2 done which is good for me. Songwriting gets me excited, wakes me up in the middle of the night and also makes me forget I have other things to attend to. Like booking, website updates, promotion, etc. You get the picture right? Balance. I know we all struggle with it. Some of you super organized people have it down, no problem. Us less fortunate slightly scattered brained peeps are always trying to figure out a way to manage time better. So, now everyday I try to dedicate time to practice and writing, and try very hard keep my head from wondering over to Facebook, or twitter or needing to book gigs. The computer age is amazing! There is so much information! Really, I am very grateful for it, there are so many opportunities to share art and ideas. There’s no one to submit your art or ideas to who says yea or nay. It’s seems a bit of a leveling field and slight addiction, haha (I think). Where am I going with all of this? Hmm…

“In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.”
― Anaïs Nin

When we seem to live in a time of extreme marketing. Always trying to figure out a way to be heard, to sell and be noticed. It’s a fine line isn’t it? Creation is meant to be shared, isn’t it? Is it our responsibility to try and uplift each other?

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
Sidebar: and why are a lot quotes and writings so patriarchal driven? Do we think this has no affect on our girls today??
Aren’t we responsible for our psychic energy that goes in to the world?

“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
― Stella Adler

To do your best and always expect the best. To push beyond mediocrity and not accept it from anyone else. To believe in your own power and collectively change the world. To challenge the rules, to say “hell no” and “hell yes” a lot! Passion and strength, embrace life and know that we are all the same! No one above no one below. The have , have nots, it’s just having. I do bet we’re the same!

“Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak..surrender to them. Don’t ask first whether it’s permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.”
― Hermann Hesse

The end. Off to see the wizard. Thank you for reading the rant.

0 CD Release Party Video y mas!

11/27/12
LIsa
· Lisa's Blog

Exhale… CD, check. CD Release Party, check. Enchanted rock, check. Mushroom stuffing, green beans, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie…check! With much gratitude I am writing tonight. I thank every single one of you who came to the CD Release Party at One-2-One Bar. Thank you all the fantastic, exceptional musicians who played with me at the CD Release Party. It was a dream to have an 11 piece band representing the music I have such love and respect for and have tried to honor with ‘Stay Right Here’. We covered 2 songs from one of my absolute favorites; The Staple Singers! One-2-One bar has long been a favorite venue of mine. Thank you delicious White Hat Rum for your sponsorship!

‘Stay Right Here’ is now available online! Get the physical CD with the artwork and photography by the ever sought after LeAnn Mueller. You’ll get the download as well. And…check out some posters and possible great gift packs (??) http://lisamarshall.bandcamp.com/album/stay-right-here

Happiest of Holidays this year! I do hope and wish for the very best for us all. And, I feel like Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality when I say, I really do want world peace. I do!!
I am working on writing a few holiday tunes. I hope to share one a week until the end of the year. I’ll also be working on a few of the classics, so if you need some live music for a holiday celebration all you got to do is email me: lmarshallbooking@gmail.com. So many ways to play it; I could bring the lovely violin players with me, or a duo with a B3/wurly player, or some bass drums and B3, or add it all together or just me and The Blonde!

Behind the song:
I thought maybe I would share a behind the scene look at the songs from the latest CD ‘Stay Right Here’. You know give a little insight or glimpse in to what was happening while they were being created.
I’ll start from the top.
Track 1- Hold Me
I believe this is the first song I had written since moving to Austin over 3 years ago. I was sitting in my living room at my desk, in my new apartment, when I began playing the first chord over & over. It was Bb (one of my favorites). I recorded a very rough idea on garageband. I remember thinking to myself that the song wasn’t very good. I kept putting it (the song) down but I couldn’t get the chord progression out of my head. Maybe it was from playing it so much or maybe I felt there might be something to it. Next the vocal melody of the first 2 lines crept up in my head. I wasn’t sure what the first line ‘hold me’ meant or where it was going but then I had a moment on the couch meditating, and became very still. I then recalled a dream I had while still in Seattle, just before I moved here. A voice spoke to me. I don’t remember exactly what was said, but I remembered the tone of the voice and the great peace that filled me. Slowly the rest of the words started to fill the page. I feel that a lot of the words just came from a place of calmness and feeling connected to a higher Source. I also realized as I began writing the rest of the words that it sounded as if I could be talking to a lover as well. Maybe a prayer or wish Words are quite powerful. I mean just look next door, hehe! The bridge was clearly, for me, a message, a statement, to all of my LGBT sisters and brothers, as well as all groups of people of the past and present who are or have been, denied basic human equality because of one aspect or another of their very being …”people have called us no good, feared us an misunderstood. But we know. It’s just a matter of time, no more being blind…” The last verse well, I leave that for interpretation
Now, I would love to hear your interpretation. So, here’s a free download: http://lisamarshall.bandcamp.com/track/hold-me-free-download
We’ll continue this monthly.

The CD Artwork. I want to thank my good friend and fabulous photographer, LeAnn Mueller! Please check her work out here www.leannmueller.com
LeAnn not only took the amazing photos but she also was art director, designing and putting together the CD cover, insert and disc. LeAnn wears many hats. Visit laBBQ (formerly J. Mueller BBQ) on S. 1st st. (at Elizabeth). She’s always been the women behind the J. Mueller, now she’s taking on the primary role as owner (and everything else that comes with running the joint) of laBBQ! It’s the BBQ joint in town to house make their own sausage, and they hand out lone star beers! Plus, I get the honor of playing some tunes every Saturday morning 11am-1pm. (Check my website though. Sometimes I’m out of town)

An entirely different subject: Not normally a reader. Yea, I know that doesn’t sound good but I’m a music girl. I’m either listening to it or obsessing about it. But, this past week, I read 2 books; The Traveler’s Gift and The Lost Choice by Andy Andrews. My good friend Connie turned me on to them. Very inspiring, well written (I wasn’t able to put them down) uplifting books. Don’t know how just yet, but I feel they are changing my life. Just wanted to share.

Speaking of Connie Steel, check out her videography from the CD Release Party! Thank you lady! Also thank you Marguerite Jones for always reaching out to the people at the shows, and selling merch and filling up the mailing list, muah!

It’s been a while so I had a lot to tell you I wish you all great health, love, prosperity and happiness!
I’m off to see the wizard.
Lisa

Maddy Brotherton & Malini Riddle on violins 1&2, Cami Joy-Rocha on tenor sax, Kevin Flatt on trumpet, Jack Edery on guitar, Michael Lefkowitz on drums, Bobby Perkins on bass, Nate Basinger on B3, Nnedi Abaroji and Terri Lynn on backing vocals

0 Sat. Oct. 27th CD Release Party

10/25/12
LIsa
· Lisa's Blog

10-27-12: ‘Stay Right Here’, Lisa Marshall’s latest release begins with a celebration Saturday Oct. 27th for her CD Release Party at One-2-One Bar on S. Lamar in Austin, TX! With Courtney Sanchez opening the night at 7:30p, followed by Tameca Jones, and then the 11 piece band of Lisa Marshall hitting the stage at 11:30pm, this is simply a night of Austin’s finest! Tickets are $12adv/$15 at door. Tickets can be purchased at http://holdmyticket.com/event/122127

The night is sponsored by locally distilled White Hat Rum, Killer Artist Agency, authentiklongboards.com/ and One-2-One Bar!

‘Stay Right Here’ boosts Nick Connolly on Wurlitzer of Delbert McClinton’s band, Mark Kazanoff of The Texas Horns, Johnny Radelat of Gary Clark Jr.. Check out the track listing on the music page!

The 11 piece band of Lisa Marshall boosts Courtney Sanchez, Nnedi Abaroji, Terry Lynn on backing vocals; Michael Lefkowitz formerly of Carolyn Wonderland, Bobby Perkins, Nate Basinger, Cami Joy-Rocha, Kevin Flatt who has played with Band of Heathens, Spoon, Jack Edery who often backed Barbara Lynn, Maddie Brotherton and Malini Riddle from McCallum High School

The cocktail that is her music (a funky, soulful blues) can’t really be called fusion, but more of a stirred mow-town mixer.
Lisa Marshall is on the fast track of positioning herself as one Austin’s staple female artists.” -Steven Blythe, Austin Post

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