John Mayer owes me half a Grammy and some cash for lyric co-writing! Where is it?!
Please CLICK THE TITLES of the songs in the Music section to get each backstory.
You can double-click each thumbnail photo to see the whole photo.
You can link with my replacement MySpace page, LisaBandFriends. You also should now be able to follow info@LisaBreslin.com on Twitter, as AmericnOriginal, and on Care2 as Lisa Bxx, AND read writings other than songs at http://www.AuthorsDen.com/LisaKBreslin !
Lisa Breslin's songs will soon be listenable through iTunes under "Alternative," or at http://www.UnderworldMixRadio.com and http://www.IndieLifeRadio.com. The Lisa Breslin EPK is also available at www.Sonicbids.com.
Lisa Breslin is a pop-rock songwriter, singer, blues-rock harmonica player, and wannabe recording producer and rock band arranger, wandering loose in Boston without a contract or straitjacket. Put a stop to this now. Contact me c/o the studio at www.NewburyMedia.com at 617-267-4095, or write to me here at info@LisaBreslin.com.
Ken says that when we get all this stuff finished, with say, three family members of each person who played on these, we could sell as many as fifteen albums right there.
We're continually revising mixes and clips, so it might be worth checking out everything here in the Music section again, even if you already heard something a while back. Click on the song titles to read the backstories.
2008:
New mixes coming soon, but not to a theater near you.
Really, I promise this time. We had some delays, but we're almost there now.
Future credits as follows:
Most songs by or co-written by Lisa Breslin, except as noted.
Vocals and diatonic harmonica: Lisa Breslin.
Mixes by Ken Kanavos at Newbury Sound.
Most electric and acoustic guitars
and electric bass: Nate Christy of Casey Desmond's band.
Drums: Jayme Tardiff of The Brightwings.
Dobro slide guitar on Urban Appalachian and Someday: Boyan Hristov.
Electric slide guitar on Wanderer: Andrew Khederian.
Some background vocals: Nate Christy.
Acoustic guitar picking on Urban Appalachian: Mark Nathanson.
Most tracks recorded by Nate Christy.
Recording interns: Tyler Meine, Mike Cataldo, Bill Hunter.
This was a fall 2007 gig:
Harpers Ferry, Allston, Mass.
10-11 p.m.
in BAHston, MA
Had a great time sitting in on one tune on harmonica at American Idol Songwriter finalist Christie Leigh's gig, at Harpers in beautiful downtown Allston on Sat., Oct. 27th. Every 20 or 30 years, they let me out to play. It was a small but appreciative crowd, and I'm still not quite deaf, so that was a good night. And the bartenders were in Halloween regalia, so they entertained us while we entertained them. More about Christie at CNC Productions, or ChristieLeighMusic on MySpace.
New words from the greats:
To paraphrase Herbie Hancock 9/28/07: "Music is not an end in itself. Music is a tool for human beings to use. Don't be a machine. Be a human being first." I'm working on that. It's not easy.
Please check out the MUSIC section in this site. It's mostly original and one cover, soft-rock, pop-rock, and maybe a taste of blues-rock and country. Blues stuff is coming. I used to hate a lot of pop, until I found out I was writing it, and I figured I'd better change my attitude.
WARNING: contrary to what the pix might indicate, I am NOT a guitarist! I'm a songwriter/harmonica player. Don't call me for any guitar gigs, or you'll be really sorry, because I might say yes, and then what will ya do? I'm just the writer on most of these. I'm one of those crazy penniless poets you've heard about. I write on guitar or keyboard. I can hack out a few chords. Don't shoot the harp player.
I did a little harmonica on the Bad Company cover that you might like. Please click the music text links in the song titles to see credits. I normally play blues-rock and write soft-rock, but I also like to play on other people's funk and rock things.
Disclaimer: Nothing here is really finished, and I'm singing sick on some of the tracks which are still waiting to be rerecorded (due to time and cash constraints)--but I think you'll like this stuff anyway. You can praise or insult me at my MySpace. No porno, please. Dobro, slide, and drums are recorded and coming on some of these.
If the credits don't show on the main music page, click the title of the song to see them. No, for the 75th time, I did not write Bad Company's "Ready for Love." There's more info about me and my stuff at blog.MySpace.com/UpFrontProductions . Most of the guitars and engineering are by Nate Christy, and the production, arrangement, vocals and harmonica (which sometimes sounds like synth in the background) are about 99% by me. Assistant engineers include Mike Cataldo and Tyler Meine. New drums are by Jayme Tardiff of the Brightwings, engineered by Nate Christy of Casey Desmond, pending on some songs. "Hard-Headed Woman" is by me; "So Make Believe" is by J. Dooling and me; "Urban Appalachian" is a silly song by me; "Ready for Love" is by Mick Ralphs of Bad Company; and "Back to You" is by JCM and me. Ken Kanavos recorded most of and mixed "So Make Believe," and Nate recorded most of and mixed the others, pending remix. I produced everything to the best of my sleep-deprived and penniless ability.
Hey, it's the best some poor working stiffs can do in a small amount of time, with the change out of the sofa, not enough booze or coffee and very little sleep. Our dads don't own recording studios, and our moms kicked us out of the basement about ten or thirty years ago. If a music link or info link doesn't open for you, please take a deep breath and count to seven. Don't faint. (If you do faint, stay on the floor until you feel better.) If that doesn't work, click the desired song link again. If that doesn't work, you can tell me or tell HostBaby.com . Thanks for stopping by.
The basic description: Some people claim I'm a musician. Berklee College begrudgingly agreed after they couldn't get rid of me for a long, long time.
My lyrics sound like those of a whole lot of different people--probably most like the lyrics of John Mayer. (More about that later.) Or sometimes Donald Fagen or Alanis Morissette (whom I don't know). Other info at blog.MySpace/UpFrontProductions .
My so-called singing voice sounds something like these people who are better: Tracy Chapman, Bonnie Raitt, Tracy Bonham, Gloria Estefan, Pat Benatar, Susan Tedeschi, Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, Laura Nyro (dead), Karen Carpenter (dead), Cher (not quite dead yet). Or some nameless man. My speaking voice allegedly sounds like Jodie Foster. Or some nameless man.
Not to equate my playing with theirs, but my harmonica sounds something like: "Magic" Dick Salwitz of J. Geils, and Marion "Little Walter" Jacobs; influenced by Willie "Sonny Boy" a.k.a. "Rice" Miller Williamson, James Montgomery, Pierre Beauregard, and Josh Howell. I enjoy the smoking harmonica work of Peter "Madcat" Ruth (formerly of Dave Brubeck) and Howard Levy (formerly of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones). I prefer amplified and distorted harmonica to unamplified, though I've got a somewhat cleaner track here; and I play ordinary pocket-sized "diatonic" harp, not chromatic. (Don't sit on those.) No, I don't play the stringed harp, so please don't ask me to do a heaven sequence in a movie. Unless it's blues heaven. (There's a Boston-area website for electric stringed harp already: www.HipHarp.com . Deborah's good. Go see her.)
I allegedly look like: Gloria Estefan, for no reason I can understand; or also occasionally reported, a slightly younger and not surgically altered version of Cher, again for no reason I can understand. (No, I have absolutely nothing against Cher.) In the photo with Herbie Hancock, I am doing an excellent impression of a drowned rat. (Yes, for better or for worse, what you see is what you get here. I'm really sorry for you.) (No, you don't literally get me.)
Please CLICK THE TITLES of the songs in the Music section to get each backstory. Lisa Breslin's songs will soon be listenable through iTunes under "Alternative," or at http://www.UnderworldMixRadio.com and http://www.RadioCrystalBlue.com and http://www.iRadioLA.com/ and http://pixy103.com and http://www.DrLouMusic.com and http://www.RadioElectric.com . The Lisa Breslin EPK is also available at www.Sonicbids.com .