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Following the release of his debut solo effort Try Whistling This in 1998, singer-songwriter Neil Finn followed up by releasing the less adventurous album One Nil in 2001. The album features guest musicians Sheryl Crow, Lisa Germano and Crowded House's album producer Mitchell Froom.
- On The Road with Mellencamp
- Solo Career
- Working For A British Label
Germano was working as a violinist when rock singer John Mellencamp invited her to play on his album. For seven years she toured and recorded as a member of Mellencamp's band, appearing on The Lonesome Jubilee (1987), Big Daddy (1989), Falling from Grace (1991), Human Wheels (1993), and Dance Naked (1994). Germano played with Mellencamp from 1985 t...
After recording with Henry Lee Summer, Bob Seger, and Carrie Newcomer, Germano began a solo career with the album On the Way Down from the Moon Palace (1991), recorded in Indianapolis and released by her label, Major Bill Records. Although sales were low, the album got the attention of Capitol Records, which signed her to a contract and released he...
She signed a contract with the British label 4AD, which had a manufacturing and distribution deal with Warner Bros. in the U.S. Ivo Watts-Russell, founder and president of 4AD, was a fan of Germano's work. He remixed some of the tracks from Happiness with producer and engineer John Fryer, who had been involved in Watts-Russell's This Mortal Coil pr...
Lisa Ruth Germano (born June 27, 1958 in Mishawaka, Indiana) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has released several albums featuring her often-hushed
Albums. No Elephants. Lisa Germano. 2013. 6.3. By Lindsay Zoladz. Genre: Pop/R&B. Label: Badman. Reviewed: February 13, 2013. No Elephants is Lisa Germano's ninth record, and her...
Lisa Germano is the greatest female artist in rock music history. I’ve heard most of the others, and while Joni Mitchell and Rickie Lee Jones comes close, Germano just gets everything right. She started her career much later than most in her mid-thirties, she often speaks in naïve sounding lyrics and whispered tones, most of her albums are ...
Despite her solo career, Lisa has remained an active musician, making appearances on albums by various artists such as Simple Minds , Linda Perry , David Bowie , Hector Zazou (... ) and Neil Finn ( One Nil ).
Lisa Torem chats to cult artist Lisa Germano about her album, 'No Elephants', and working with Calexico, Johnny Marr, Michael Gira and the Smashing Pumpkins. There is little space between Lisa Germano’s worldview and the final production. We feel intensely the energy and angst she directs at a world which bypasses simple communication and ...
