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Songs and Samples
Romance & Finance
Little Black Cloud
Am I Too Blue
My Sweet Love Ain't Around
Pineola
Lovin' You Again
Wall Of Tears
All The Way With You
Wanting, Wanting You
Like An Old Fashioned Waltz
Old Cross Road Is Waitin'
The Valley
About Lisa O'Kane
Lisa O’Kane’s life is a mix of city and country, music and motherhood. Her life is constantly evolving as she juggles the pressures of a recording career and touring artist with the responsibilities of supportive parenting of her two girls.
While Lisa and her girls make their home amid the hustle and bustle of L.A., they return to Yosemite, where Lisa was raised, every summer. “Life is different there,” she says. “It’s slower, and more relaxed. It’s a great place for us to regroup as a family, and it’s important to me that the girls experience the sort of childhood that I enjoyed.”
O'Kane has come a long way from Fish Camp, California, her tiny hometown in Yosemite National Forest. "Fish Camp, population 36!" she laughs. "With my brother and sister, there were three of us, and we were the only kids in town. There was a Chevron station, there was the Silver Tip lodge where I worked as a waitress during the summer, there was a general store, there was a post office where my mother was the postmistress … and there was a pond."
Soaking up the sounds from the "little black radio" on top of her mom's refrigerator, Lisa was soon displaying a talent unfamiliar to her family members. "There was really no one musical in my family, but I was always a musical kid," she says. "But my grandfather did play violin, so I started taking violin lessons in the fourth grade. My mother and father scraped up $150 to buy me an upright piano, which I still have.”
The last four years have been momentous ones for O’Kane, who has enjoyed global adoration since the release of her debut CD, AM I TOO BLUE, in 2002. Countless U.S. dates and several European tours later, Lisa released her second disc, PEACE OF MIND. The album received critical acclaim and spawned three #1 Country HotDisc International Chart singles.
“I’ve enjoyed a lot of success - for which I’m very thankful,” Lisa says. “But it was like a miracle when the title track of my second album was featured in the AMC-TV’s Clint Eastwood Marathon “Make My Saturday.” Shortly thereafter, “No Tomorrow,” another song from the project, was included in the CBS-TV Movie, “Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution.”
Lisa’s extraordinary vocals, songwriting talents and drive have come together to create some of the most moving Roots music to hit the airwaves in years, and led to a recent recording contract with New Light Entertainment/Universal.
With every song on It Don't Hurt, Lisa carves out her own stylistic corner of the Americana genre. The creative team she assembled for the new album speaks volumes about O'Kane's musical sensibilities and her growing profile as an artist. Veteran keyboardist Skip Edwards (Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, Jim Lauderdale), Yoakam/Lucinda Williams bassist Taras Prodaniuk, Emmy Award-winning composer Ernest Troost, former Linda Ronstadt sidekick/Bryndle member Kenny Edwards, and the aformentioned Lee are just a few of the characters bringing Lisa’s real-life musical tales to life. Kenny Edwards, whose "Misery and Happiness" provides another of the album's high points, will be teaming up with O'Kane on tour.
Working with a strong label behind her (and national distribution), the life of Lisa O’Kane has evolved once again. One thing that will not change, however, is Lisa’s magical appeal.
News and Reviews
West Coast Performer Magazine>
September 2003
If it’s been awhile since you’ve found any rootsy, emotional music that you actually love enough to purchase, Lisa O’Kane is arriving to fix all that.
“Am I Too Blue” is a treasure that you’ll play again and again, especially if you have any sadness or heartbreak in your life. When you can’t cry anymore, Lisa does it for you, with her bittersweet voice, in a way that tells you that a few tears will wash the wound clean - someday.
A stunning debut, Lisa has gathered the perfect team of all-pro players and producer to deliver this indie set in a way that surpasses every major label female-fronted package you’ll hear this year. The players are cohorts of Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, and Merle Haggard. Edward Tree’s production creates a clean, classy space in which it feels like we’re eavesdropping on a grown woman’s intimate feelings.
Not that the mood is all blue. The collection includes a balance of mid-tempo numbers that keep the energy cooking and a seamless, unspoiled way. Perfect. There are no weak moments, no missteps, no tracks to skip over, in any tempo.
The song selection is delicate blend of a few originals by Lisa with some re-tailored classics from Lucinda Williams, John Prine and even Hank Williams. If you bought and savored the early Linda Ronstadt records, you will like Lisa O’Kane. A California mother of two, Lisa had retired from club singing until a few years ago when a heartfelt compliment from a musician broke her into tears and re-acceptance of her buried dreams.
Her clear, cool voice has risen to the top of the European country charts twice already, with “Little Black Cloud” and “Wall of Tears,” creating a following that keeps calling Lisa across the waters. “Am I Too Blue” is a rare record. More than to be admired (though that’s okay), this I one to be savored.
- Rex Poindexter