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This week’s episode features Lizzie Weber performing her original, “Yours and Mine.”
About this week’s artist:
Singer-songwriter Lizzie Weber has recorded and released music traversing genres, never straying from a sound that has become definitively hers: incorporating intimate yet captivating storytelling supported by stirring, cinematic arrangements. While Lizzie has recorded her music alongside Academy and Grammy Award-winning artists, for her latest self-produced album, Fidalgo, she enlisted longtime bandmates and collaborators from her years of living in the Pacific Northwest, ultimately finishing the recording and mixing of the album in LA with Sheldon Gomberg as Executive Producer (Ben Harper, Ricki Lee Jones). She has opened for such revered artists as Ben Folds, Mason Jennings, JD Souther, and most recently supported Academy-Award winners Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (the Swell Season) on their 15th Anniversary tour for Once.
What brought you to this point in your life as a working St. Louis artist?
Perseverance and dedication to making a life in music. Songwriting has gotten me through life in a lot of ways, and has offered me the opportunity to connect with people from all walks of life from all over the world. I’m extremely grateful for that.
What inspires your music? What does this song in particular mean to you?
Life experience, heartbreak, love, books, films, friendship, conversation, nature – the beautiful thing about songwriting is that inspiration is wherever you choose to see it.
This song is called “Yours and Mine,” which was inspired my own realization that love and sacrifice are one in the same. It’s about how, when you love someone, the idea of ‘yours’ or ‘mine’ becomes ‘ours’ in so many ways.
Who in St. Louis are you inspired by right now?
Joanna Serenko, Starwolf, and painter Marisa Adesman are local artists that I find incredibly inspiring.
What bands are you touring with lately?
The Swell Season, The Veils, MALINDA, Joe Pug.
Where do you hope to be in 5 years?
Still making music, touring, and collaborating with people in every corner of the industry, from musical theater to the world of film and TV. I often miss acting and hope to find time to dedicate to that as well.
Links:
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