Carving Canyons

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The title alone of highlight “Night Moves” — a moody tune with an exciting driving rhythm — will have you itching to put on the Bob Seger song of the same name. I get overwhelmed sometimes about how much I want to listen to something new, and I just don’t get the chance sometimes. She also started the process of writing a new album, which deals with, well, dealing with that pain (and bouncing back from it).

She was trying to grow flowers in her farm, where she was stuck as the rest of the world, and flowers in her soul, to which she was trying so much to connect with. It’s almost impossible not to think about Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac when listening to this record: the classic guitar that accompanies the singer’s voice creating a calming yet atmosphere, the harmonies, her deep, warm tone… It’s familiar, but in the best way: it’s comforting, it’s homey. Americana Highways spoke to Lissie about the importance of acknowledging that pain, the wisdom in writing with other women, and what her own, personal Song of the Summer was. I’d almost say more to my producer and my musicians’ influence over recognizing that my voice can do those things, so they sort of nudge me in that direction.It also unlocks new layers of self-reflection, as on the title track, where Lissie considers the way that destructive experiences can be formative (as in the creation of a canyon).

Granted, her debut album Catching Tigers was eclectic, and certainly weaved influences of folk with country in an attempt to showcase her varied songwriting. The woodlands and the tillable acreage, I’ve been doing a lot of conservancy, like getting goats to clean out invasives. Your support is important because it helps us cover our costs so that we can continue bringing you the independent music journalism you know and trust. The Stevie Nicks comparisons come easily, and “Night Moves” owes too much to Fleetwood Mac (though it’s quite good, whether it’s a knockoff or not).I feel honored to make music, and it sounds cheesy, but you have to feel your feelings, and if I can help people feel deeply and cry or ruminate on something in their own life – I just think that process of feeling and release is the path toward peace in this world. And as much as it’s terrible to have to go through hard things, these are the things that create this landscape of our lives, and all of its texture and its edges and its depressions and its color, that rich pageant of life that we all experience.