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Pour son premier album, Lisa la joue securite en s'assurant les services de quelques musiciens confirmes: Taras Produniuk (Bassiste de Dwight Yoakam et Lucinda Williams), skip Edward (organiste de Dwight Yoakam), Scott Joss (violoniste de Merle Haggard), Ed Tree (Guitariste des Bum Steers quiassure aussi la production). si elle flirte une ou deux fois )"Lovin You Again" et "Wall of Tears") avec la country variete, elle assure une ambiance pitot folk blue grass avec violon et mandoline en evidence. Tout cela ne marche pas trop mal et meme bien sur "Romance and finance" qui mele violon, accordeon et rythme a la Bo Diddley. "Little Black Cloud", "Am I Too Blue" de Lucinda Williams et "The Valley" sont eux, de bien belles balades misses en valeur par sa voix de soprano. Elle reprend de maniere tres personnelle "My Sweet Love Ain't around" d'Hank Williams alors qui "Pineola", chanson de Lucinda Williams sur le suicide evoque quelque peu "Ode to Billy Joe" en plus bluesy et rapeux.
Review - Belgium
Lisa is a great country singer who grew up in California's Yosemite Valley, a place I was lucky enough to visit a couple of times. She picks the songs out of that great bag of bluegrass, folk, traditional country and modern singer-songwriters and brings songs of John Prine, Hank Williams, Lucinda Williams and K.T. Oslin amongst others. She got some help of great L.A. musicians like Taras Prodaniuk, Skip Edwards, Scott Joss, Tom Corbett and Billy Watts. The whole cd is a chain of highlights and it's hard to believe that no major label has noticed this great talent.
Review - Sweden
I thought that I had already heard the best country album (Flatlanders) this spring, but when Lisa O'Kane from Fish Camp in Yosemite Valley, California, (population 36) released her debut "Am I Too Blue", I had to think again. It is exquisite: traditional country, packed with great musical accomplishments from the musicians which creates an expansive sound picture, where the young Lisa's intense, crystal clear and melodious voice just kind of slides right in. Lisa O'Kane chooses her songs with an artistic sense and integrity. Some of the songs on Lisa's album include: Hank Williams' "My Sweet Love Ain't Around" with a blues fiddle and a wonderful guitar solo, K.T. Oslin's "Wall of Tears" with an electrified bluegrass touch, Sandy Denny's "Like and Old Fashioned Waltz" with a tender sadness worthy of Frances Black, Lucinda Williams' songs "Pineola" (greased by Edward Trees fat slide guitar) and "Am I Too Blue" which Lisa does even better than Lucinda herself. The original material holds the same class. Get to your nearest Impro store or net dealers. Magnus Eriksson
Review - England
O'Kane. The name is very familiar to a lot of us country fans from the top class duo, The O'Kanes, which as you know consisted of Kieran Kane & Jamie O'Hara. Well, when I say this lady does the name proud, I mean it. Lisa comes from a town called Fish Camp near Yosemite Valley, California, which has a population of only 36 and was brought up listening to Bill Monroe and Hank Williams, and hearing a traditional "Jug Band" with a washboard and standup string bass. Living in a city now, she goes back to the valley every summer. She starts off with a rousing number "Romance and Finance" which she helped put together. Then, into the number that for me stands out on this album "Little Black Cloud" and from what they tell me, it was written while the writers Mark Fosson & Edward Tree were lost in Nashville. Great stuff. The title track "Am I Too Blue" lets you hear the feeling in the lady's voice. Track four is Hank Williams' "My Sweet Love Ain't Around" and is again from the top draw and well performed. "Pineola" lets her show how a sad song is sung. Number six "Lovin You Again" is another number which shows the quality in the voice. K.T. Oslin's "Wall of Tears" picks the tempo up somewhat before going into the superb John Prine number "All The Way With You". That man can certainly write, and this lady performs it to perfection. "Wanting, Wanting You" keeps up the standard, as does "Like An Old Fashioned Waltz". That veteran Bill Monroe's "Old Cross Road Is Waitin" comes next showing what she can do, with that good old country sound, and believe me Lisa puts it over very well. The CD finishes with "The Valley" a number Lisa co-wrote with Edward Tree - a number with lots of feeling. An outstanding CD that Lisa should be proud of. The chosen musicians on all the tracks are some of the best on the scene, and the backing vocalists do a first-class job. Produced by Edward Tree to a very high standard that's for sure, and it's an album I am pleased to have in my collection. John Brookfield
Review - UK
Lisa O'Kane is not just a country singer - she is country! She could be nothing else growing up in California's Yosemite Valley in a town of just thirty-six and where she and her two siblings were the only kids around. A real tomboy, Lisa listened to her radio favourites Hank Williams and Bill Monroe, played rough and tumble and on Saturday nights went square dancing to a band that included string bass and washboard. Throughout her childhood, Lisa sang and played classical violin and after college earned a few dollars singing in a country band. Before her career could take off, Lisa became a mother and she quit her beloved music to raise her two children. Four years ago, after singing in a pub, she was encouraged to resume her career. Lisa's recording debut, "Am I Too Blue" (Raisin'Kane), reveals that, though Lisa is now a big city girl, she has lost none of her country roots. Her emotionally charged voice performs the hell out of a dozen great songs from the pens of some of country's greatest writers. To merely sample the songs on this remarkable album is nigh imposssible for each and every one is a winner. But being pressed for space, I will go for "My Sweet Love Ain't Around", an incredible reading of the Hank Williams blues, the joyous "Wall of Tears" (K.T. Oslin), the bluegrass Gospel "Old Cross Road Is Waitin" (Bill Monroe). But it is on the ballads that Lisa really shows her power, on Mark Fosson's "Little Black Cloud", Lucinda Williams' "Am I Too Blue" and John Prine's "All The Way With You". Lisa O'Kane? Smithy's in love again. Pete Smith
Review - England
North Country Music Magazine - July, 2002
By Graham Lees
New name Lisa O'Kane has a voice that hits you right in the midriff. When I first listened to the album, I thought her voice was slightly familiar. It was when she hit a certain range the name Kathy Chiavola came screaming at me.
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Review - Canada
Country Music Magazine - July, 2002
By Graham Lees
Wow...chalk up Lisa O'Kane as a voice that 'must' be heard by the masses. The California mountain-born O'Kane is as rootsy as you get - a nice mix of very early career Suzy Bogguss and Canadian traditionalist Cindy Church. Am I Too Blue is Lisa O'Kane's debut disc...and hopefully it reaches people who like to listen to hear "goood" music!!
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Review - UK
Metro Country - July, 2002
Lisa O'Kane grew up in California's Yosemite Valley in the town of Fish Camp (population 36), where she and her two siblings were the only kids around. Lisa loved singing and listening to old Hank Williams and Bill Monroe songs on her mom's radio as much as she enjoyed clambering over rocks and streams. Saturday nights, she would go square dancing to a traditional jug band with a washboard and standup string bass. It was a life of simple joys and hard realities.
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Review - Brazil
Super Country - July, 2002
By Rodrigo Haddad
Lisa O'Kane aparece no cenario musical de Nashville com o lancamento de seu album de estreia "Am I Too Blue" e sua primeira musica de trabalho "Little Black Cloud" ja esta nas primeiras posicoes de paradas de sucessos da Europa.
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Review - England
Maverick Magazine - Issue Number One - July, 2002
By Alan Cackett, Editor
This is one of those rare works of art that emerges from nowhere to delight, entertain and inspire, as well as give a soul-deep reminder of the unrivalled power of songs to speak to the deepest core of our being.
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Review - England - The Advertiser
Though I am quite open-minded about my country, I still long for the days, the 60s, when country was country, no arguments. Occasionally I get an album by a contemporary artist who recreates this period and one such artist is Lisa O'Kane, a young beauty from California. "Am I Too Blue" (Raisin'Kane), though recorded last year, is straight for the sixties in sound and feel. Ed Tree has done a cracking job producing these songs, largely from the pens of modern writers, Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Ken O'Malley, Mark Fosson, etc and Lisa does a magnificent job in the vocals department. Hank Williams' "My Sweet Love Ain't Around" is magnificent but no more powerful than Bill Monroe's "Old Cross Road Is Waitin'", Randall Hylton's "Wanting, Wanting You" and Sandy Denny's "Like An Old Fashioned Waltz". Who says real country is dead? Certainly not Lisa O'Kane! Pete Smith
Review - UK
Lisa O'Kane is one of those rare natural born singers. The more I listen only confirms my belief that here is a singer with immense potential. If she were a new manufacturer on the stock market, I would certainly be investing in shares. Three-quarters of an hour was not enough to satiate my appetite! Ian McQueen
Review - www.countryreview.com - June 2002
Album Review: Lisa O'Kane am i too blue
By George Peden
Be honest. Often, listening to country music by independent artists is a little like hobbling with a stone in your shoe. It can be painful, awkward, and, at times, unbearable. Thank goodness for fresh, vibrant talents like Los Angeles-based Lisa O'Kane.
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Review - Pasadena Weekly, April 2002
This singer's choice of songwriters - K.T. Oslin, John Prine, Hank Williams - speaks volumes about her taste for rootsy tunesmiths enamored of wry humor and saucy women. O'Kane's sweetly melodious, aching soprano suits the material and when it comes to the vanishing art of reflective ballad singing (especially Richard Ferris' "Lovin' You Again" and her co-write with producer Ed Tree, "The Valley"), she shines. It's a promising debut onto an L.A. scene lately void of strong female voices. Bliss
Review - Country Music People - February 2002
Spotlight Album: Lisa O'Kane am i too blue
This is one of those albums that comes right out of left field and offers much unexpected pleasure. No information is available on the artist, though many of those involved have track records.
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