Press:
“A woman of soulful rhythm & blues who brings back those Earthy sounds of Motown…Tina (Turner) has recently started her farewell tour and if you are desperately looking for a worthy successor…”You Got 2 See Lisa Marshall.”- Francois (Swa) Braeken, www.rootsville.be Euro Americana Chart Reporter
“.. surprising about this release (Simple) is that almost everything about it, is completely her own product. Lisa is not only her own producer, she is also the sound engineer and plays apart from some exceptions all instruments. Above all she wrote all songs herself. You would forget that it’s all about her strong soul voice. And a soul music voice she has. We dare even to say the best white soul voice of the moment.”- Freddy Celis www.rootstime.be
“the way I see it, if you’re going to cover the Queen of Soul you better do it right, cuz it’s sink or swim, no middle ground, it works or it doesn’t. I was walking up to the door and I could hear Lisa wailing out one of Aretha’s signature songs, Natural Woman and she was totally nailing it! It was almost more than I could believe, but there it was! I realized it wasn’t just an accident as she went to work on a Tina Turner influenced Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin and drove Janis Joplin’s Get It While You Can with that same intense intimacy Janis had. It was pretty easy to see why Francois Braeken, a reporter for the Euro-Americana Chart wrote “Tina (Turner) has recently started her farewell tour and if you are desperately looking for a worthy successor…You Got 2 See Lisa Marshall”.- Michelle Pittman, Houston Music Review
SEATTLE SOUND MAGAZINE Dec. ‘08
” Lisa Marshall’s first solo album carries a heavy debt to the Motown era; backup singers croon to Marshall’s soaring vocals, while tambourines and bass riffs stroke and jingle each piece to perfection. Like late Tina Turner, the swinging melody dips and soars with lyrics about defeat and triumph, and defeat again. It’s the contrast of it all that gets you. Like the groove that underpins lines like “What makes a heart break so
slow?” Or Marshall’s surprising compositions; her voice belts and soars through the building lyrics then dips to a restrained contralto for climatic lines, like “I am so, so, so,..lost,” which gets more deliciously guttural with each “so.” Hints of reverb in the production space add a subtle, creepy effect to the gospel tunes. It could almost be too crafted, but with Marshall’s spellbinding voice pulling at the tempo, the
album feels so organic that you can’t imagine it any other way. – Rachel Dovey
Standout Tracks: “Swamp Song”, “Bring Yourself Back”
“Lisa Marshall is absolutely one of the most gifted R&B and Soul singers, an excellent musician and Songwriter..”- Adolf ‘gorhand’ Goriup- Folkworld, Germany
Some radio and Charts Simple was a part of..
Radio Girl on Radio Winschoten, The Netherlands 4-04-09
Swamp Song 6-20-09
Simple Roots Revival, Belgium Raymond & Theo Radio FM Goud 4-’09
Simple The Tuesday Night Americana Music Club, The Netherlands 4-07-09
Got 2 See You 4-28-09
Got 2 See you A Shake of Music Euro American Chart 6-04-09
Simple 6-05-09
Swamp Song Landslide, the Netherlands 4-26-09
Simple Blast 1386 Mark Watkins Music Show, Reading, UK 4-07-09 & 4-25-09