Lisa Swarbrick

Lisa and Number 9 Train at the Baggot Inn, NYC- April 2007



Lisa with Danny Nova opening for DAVE MASON Nov. 8, 2006 @ The Baker Theater- Dover, NJ. pix by Julie Johnson



photo by Tony Ferrari



photo by Tony Ferrari



LISA SWARBRICK



Every once in awhile a singer/songwriter comes along being dragged kicking and screaming by their muse. Her inspiration is a force that casts

Lisa neurotically back and forth from tech to muso. Her background is not in the spotlight, but behind the scenes. In the past nine years she has worked as a stage hand at the most popular music venues in Toronto with international touring artists, had a few great forays out on the road in the States, worked on and off as a sound engineer/music editor for studios in Toronto, and as a dialogue editor once nominated with her crew for best sound edit on a documentary at the Hot Docs 1998 festival. Five years ago her muse convinced her to move from Toronto to the New York City area where she found the inspiration to hone her expression and exorcise those demons!

While living in NYC, Lisa performed solo acoustic shows, played the blues at smoky late night jams, and played guitar with Ad Hoc Blues Band, Bluesquake, Bank Street Blues Band, Side of the Road, Number9Train, and Jersey rocker/Timmy Award Winner Danny Nova. See band section for websites.



Recently Lisa moved to Nashville, and is trying to make sense out of it all.



photo by Tony Ferrari



STAGE HAND

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"After years of setting up the sound rig and backline for every artist imaginable and seeing them perform, rather than getting cynical, I got inspired." Lisa would go home after working eighteen hour days on a gig for someone else, and play guitar. "It really helps the music fever being able to set up gear and sometimes play the guitar of a player that I admire." You can watch Lisa work on Gov't Mule's www.mule.net 2003 Deepest End concert DVD- a six hour concert in New Orleans with a multitude of huge players paying homage to Mule's late bass player Allen Woody. A great night of incredible music.



FREELANCE WRITER ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lisa has written for Hittin' The Note magazine, (where honest-to-goodness real in depth articles can be read covering the scope of rock'n'roll, blues, roots and the jam band scene). You'll love it if you haven't read a meaty beefy copy yet- go to the store and get one or visit www.hittinthenote.com The last issue for 2005 has a cover story of Susan Tedeschi that Lisa wrote. Her new album is wonderful, but you must see her live.



TOP TEN FAVORITE SONGS (ok Twenty)

So friends were sitting around and I just kept listing them off, so I wrote 'em down to share. in no particular order, of course!



Drift Away- Dobie Gray

Evenin’- T-Bone Walker

Stardust- Hoagy Carmichael (sweetest Nat King Cole version)

Simple Song- Lyle Lovett

Working Class Hero- John Lennon

I Want To Take You Higher- Sly & The Family Stone

Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby- Louis Jordan

Indian Head Penny- Guy Clark

Poems, Prayers & Promises- John Denver

Need Your Love So Bad- Little Willie John (sweetest Irma Thomas version)



Big River- Johnny Cash

All Your Love- Otis Rush

All Your Love- Magic Sam

I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry- Hank Williams

Ramble On- Led Zeppelin

Little Wing- Jimi Hendrix

Bye Bye Blackbird- Joe Cocker

Blue Moon of Kentucky- Bill Monroe (one of my favorite songs as a kid, by Elvis)

Think Of Me- Little Milton

Amazing Grace



photo by Tony Ferrari



www.DANNYNOVA.com



NUMBER9TRAIN

Number9Train



band photo by Tony Ferrari



Lisa and Number9Train performing Soul of a Man @ Kenny's Castaways, NYC April 2007 Dennis Moriarty on harp

Soul Of A Man



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