Lonesome Liz's Outlaw Arts Page
about Lonesome Liz
Roots Country and Blues artist Lonesome Liz was dubbed 'The Female Robert Johnson' by 'Southern Fried Magazine'; honoring both her sultry contralto and the Hellhound on her trail. Her performances are heavy with Southern Gothic undertones. A natural storyteller, her words shift to expose the seamy underbelly of the South, which she translates through a mystic veil of mojo; often drawing on history along with Hoodoo and other Folk traditions.
Her performances have included Drive-by Truckers artist Wes Freed, art revolutionary Molly Crabapple, Jesco the Dancing Outlaw and she's shared a stage with Timbuk III's Pat MacDonald, The Goddamn Gallows and the .357 String Band.
Featured in the upcoming Hasil Adkins documentary, 'My Blue Star' by Ron Thomas Smith, she has she has also appeared in and directed dozens of plays as well as in an award-winning independent film, 'Leon's Aspirations'. Also a playwright, she has written and produced adaptations of both 'Faust' and Sartre's 'No Exit'.
A multi-disciplinary artist, she is also a music and fine art journalist, published primarily in 'Outlaw Magazine', 'Fine Art Magazine' and GratefulWeb.net. She was the last writer to interview Mike Seeger before his death and her Levon Helm retrospective received praise from Bob Dylan himself.
She has also been tarot, astrology and mythology editor for BellaOnline.com and Suite101.com. Her writing and photography are featured in the best-selling 'Everything Ghost Hunting Guide'. She began writing in Chicago, when Slam was first emerging and her poetry as well as her lyrics have received praise from Beat Poets Charles Plymell and Robert Brannan.
Her strong, sultry voice and powerful lyrics are captivating. Though unquestionably feminine and alluring, she describes hangings, hauntings, reckonings and shoot-outs in a way that makes you think she was not only there but participated. One of Country's true Outlaw Women, Liz blasted the boundaries of Alt Country. However it's delivered, her sultry Southern vision takes you far from the expected. It's hard to resist the spell Lonesome Liz casts when her mojo's rising...
Do not go where the path may lead, go where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Tuesday
Monday
Lonesome Liz Art Contest
Enter the LL Art Contest now through April Fools Day. EVERYONE
who enters will get a signed copy of their own drawing + the winning one.
The prizes are:
FIRST PLACE: I'll write a song for you on a theme of your choosing + come to the Lonesome Liz show of your choice and drink a shot of whiskey with me on me, (if I'm not playing in your area I'll send you a shot of whiskey + make a video of your favorite song, (original or cover).
SECOND PLACE: Come to the Lonesome Liz show of your choice and drink a shot of whiskey with me on me :) If I'm not in your area, I'll send you a shot of whiskey and make a video of your favorite song, (original or cover).
THIRD PLACE: Three shots of whiskey in bottles painted by me. (See examples of my bottle art here: http://lonesomelizpage.blogspot.com).
Join my Facebook page if you're not already there for photos to base your work on. http://www.facebook.com/lonesomeliz Entries can be alterations of photographs, drawings, collages... anything you like!
Submit entries via Facebook or email to: elizabeth.bissette@gmail.com
The fan art that inspired the idea:
More LL in art:
The prizes are:
FIRST PLACE: I'll write a song for you on a theme of your choosing + come to the Lonesome Liz show of your choice and drink a shot of whiskey with me on me, (if I'm not playing in your area I'll send you a shot of whiskey + make a video of your favorite song, (original or cover).
SECOND PLACE: Come to the Lonesome Liz show of your choice and drink a shot of whiskey with me on me :) If I'm not in your area, I'll send you a shot of whiskey and make a video of your favorite song, (original or cover).
THIRD PLACE: Three shots of whiskey in bottles painted by me. (See examples of my bottle art here: http://lonesomelizpage.blogspot.com).
Join my Facebook page if you're not already there for photos to base your work on. http://www.facebook.com/lonesomeliz Entries can be alterations of photographs, drawings, collages... anything you like!
Submit entries via Facebook or email to: elizabeth.bissette@gmail.com
The fan art that inspired the idea:
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| By Charles ODonnavan |
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| By Tony Martinez |
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| By Orville Dunworth |
More LL in art:
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| By Lana Gentry |
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| As 'Faust' by Katelan Foisy |
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| As a cartoon by James Hislope |
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Tuesday
The Rather Grim History of Dr. Well's Asylum: Frankenstein the Monster
Loud
sounds, much as described previously.
FRANKENSTEIN:
I AM NOT DEAD! I live! I live!
And because of that cannot forgive.Made, created, not born, that’s right
in the deepest, darkest black of night
rather than in the usual way.
I wanted to play. All new born do.
I wanted to love and be loved, don’t you?Yet you think me less for I was created
from the bones of others. Despised! Hated!
I’m still, a man, in my way.
Understand? You may say
I’m a monster. Say it if you please.
Say it trembling on your knees.
You always do.
I’m a lot like you.
Like it or not, it’s true.
I don’t know why I don’t remember
My life before I was dismembered. Perhaps it would be too profound a sorrow
to know all this head I now must borrow
once was.
He is the cause of all of it.
Tell me this and tell me quick,which is the villain?
Which one’s done the killing?
I am his instrument, so HE proclaimed.
I am HIS creation. I carry HIS name.Death comes from my hand
but I was HIS plan.
It’s Frankenstein you should blame.
His brain…lost from the start!
Where is HIS heart?
He did THIS and you think I’M insane?
You’re scared of ME? I’M the baneof humankind? You’re out of YOUR mind.
You’re scared of the wrong Frankenstein.
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