Lise Liddell Launches New Album to Debut at SXSW
Houston Natuve to Appear at SXSW

HOUSTON, TX – Lise Liddell, Houston’s native folk/rock/pop singer-songwriter, will launch her newest album In The Wake at Austin’s SXSW Music Conference at 8:00p.m. Friday, March 18th at Mother Egan’s on 6th Street.

In The Wake is Liddell’s third album following White Heart (1999) and Lovers' Moon (2002). Carnival Recording of Nashville, TN has signed on to market and distribute Liddell’s latest and most seasoned release.

In The Wake was recorded in Brisbane, Australia with producer Mike Flanders who Liddell met two years ago at SXSW. The two struck a friendship based on the mutual admiration of the likes of Lyle Lovett, Patti Griffin, and Mark Cohn. Flanders took Lovers' Moon back to Australia with him, and after gaining substantial airplay for Liddell, invited her to travel Down Under to do some writing and recording. Liddell promptly flew to Brisbane and left 8 weeks later with a fully recorded CD.

In The Wake is the product of a chance meeting at SXSW 2003. At SXSW 2004 Mark Hallman (Congress House Studio), an Austin friend of Flanders’, mastered the album. As fate will have it the album will be released at SXSW 2005, with Flanders, flying in from Australia the night before, playing guitar and Hallman performing on drums. “I don’t think it could not have worked out this perfectly,” says Liddell. “The whole thing is exquisitely uncanny, which is why I believe in my work with Michael Flanders so much. We’d have met each other somehow if we’d lived in different universes.”

Liddell is truly an artist who has taken the road less traveled. She’s probably one of the very few Phi Beta Kappa and MBA’s to chuck security for the life of a singer songwriter. Focusing her full attention on her artistic muse, Liddell articulates a rare understanding not only of romantic pitfalls but also of familial fractiousness. Don’t let her soft rock, country, folk sound completely lull you: Liddell’s lyrics are packed with a poetic thoughtfulness and punch that will shift the placement of your complacent heart.

In her hometown of Houston, Liddell has played such venues as McGonigel’s Mucky Duck, Ovations, The Rhythm Room, The Cotton Exchange, The Ale House, The Twelve Spot, and Rockefeller’s. “Houston has nurtured me,” Liddell says. “I grew up here and learned how to perform here - first at Ovations and then at The Mucky Duck. The people of Houston are the reason I’m still playing, despite what you may hear about Houston not being a music city. I’ll be doing a CD release gig here very soon.”

This past fall, Liddell received the 2004 Best Songwriter Award from the Houston Press Music Awards She was also nominated for Best Folk/Acoustic Act by the Houston Press in 2004 as well as 20003. Liddell also was a finalist for the 1999 Lilith Fair tour and was the executive producer of Norma Zenteno’s 1994 release Salsa Nights.