Lissie // Announces ‘In Sleep’ EP

Lissie lives by herself, with her dog, in a farmhouse in Ojai, California, away from the beaten & obvious track of LA’s music scene. There are many things from her life & history that make these songs and her spirit possible, some of it in deference to that spirit: having a grandfather who was an international barbershop quartet champion, having a great-grandfather who was a train-jumping hobo on this famous Rock Island Line (the Cash song of the same name Lissie has played in hometown gigs), a father who delivered her at her birth, getting kicked out of high school, selling honey for living money upon coming to LA and an inability to separate herself from this Midwestern city where many just raise their families, get fat and die satisfied.

Lissie returns to the UK this month for a pair of shows in London, where the uninitiated would be wise to check her out early, before heading back to the US for a run of dates as special guests to The Low Anthem en route to several appearances at this year’s SXSW festival, some of us will be there too. Good times.