Lissie (Maurus) More Americana music

Found this gal thru the Fat Possum Records (Heartless Bastards) site.
Goes by first name of Lissie.

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“Lissie Maurus has the voice, the songs and the image to be huge in 2010. Her first release, Why You Runnin’, pitches her midway between the ethereal spookiness of Jesca Hoop or Neko Case and the commercially copper-bottomed country-rock lilt of Sheryl Crow and solo Stevie Nicks. The EP captures what makes Maurus so compelling: a clear-as-a-bell singing voice, a knack for melody that sounds effortless, a direct line to a song’s emotional core, and a talent way too big for just one canyon.” – Sunday Times Culture
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She has opened in the past for Ray Lamontagne, has just finished performing several times at SXSW in Austin and will be on tour next month in the UK.
From her My Space page, have a listen to her song “Wedding Bells”, really a nice voice and I like the split-screen effect in the video.
I’d spend a few bucks to see her live.

Here is the link.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&contributorid=3547908
Hey she’s just like Lucinda’s high school experience.
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Lissie Maurus, who got kicked out of high school.
“She lives by herself, with her dog, in a farmhouse in Ojai, Calif., where she tends to drink wine and will, on a whim, go to the store to buy paint for her rocks so she can construct a medicine wheel in her big backyard.” [Daytrotter

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